Ericsson advised that the collaboration sees the deployment of 5G coverage and capabilities at MRANTI Park – the creation of MRANTI’s on-campus “5G development centre” with support from DNB – as well as comprehensive knowledge sharing and education efforts for enterprises and the community in MRANTI’s innovation clusters.
MRANTI Park (and the broader Bukit Jalil area) is among the first few areas in Kuala Lumpur to receive 5G coverage.
A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Kuala Lumpur by DNB chief corporate affairs officer Zuraida Jamaluddin, MRANTI chief executive officer Dzuleira Abu Bakar, and Ericsson head of Malaysia Sri Lanka & Bangladesh David Hägerbro https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagerbro/ (pictured).
The MoU will see Ericsson leveraging its experience and technology to provide input for the development of use cases to increase the uptake of 5G, as well as to support local start-ups and technopreneurs on 5G development and readiness. Ericsson will also be participating in a 5G knowledge building program through activities such as presentations and seminars, the company advised.
“To deliver the full value of 5G to Malaysia, we need to bring together partners to collaborate, innovate and incubate ideas to nurture a thriving ecosystem. This collaboration involving DNB, MRANTI and Ericsson will be a catalyst to launch Malaysia into the digital economy through the development of local skills and transfer of knowledge, where we will be contributing our industry leading expertise,” said David Hägerbro.
DNB will be working closely with MRANTI and Ericsson in the 5G infrastructure planning and execution, and in facilitating knowledge sharing sessions on 5G technology and related capabilities. This partnership is a testament of DNB’s support of MRANTI’s aspiration to have an on-campus 5G development centre for their innovation clusters, and for the creation of their 5G use cases and experiences, Ericsson said.
“Given MRANTI’s position as the national research commercialisation agency and key technology enabler, we are delighted to explore and enable the exciting possibilities that 5G has to offer. This empowers communities in MRANTI Park to avail themselves of 5G technology and capabilities, eventually building it into future products and services,” said Zuraida Jamaluddin.
Ericsson advised that MRANTI will offer 5G technology capabilities across its facilities, promote its awareness and use, including facilitating its application in key development clusters, and other developmental and partnership programmes including the National Technology and Innovation Sandbox (NTIS), of which MRANTI is the lead secretariat.
