KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 — The newly appointed board of directors of Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB) will meet on Tuesday to look into the due diligence report on the 5G share sale agreement (SSA), before making recommendations for the second 5G network, said Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo.
“There is this whole process of due diligence that has been done, it is (now) for them to study the report that is put forward, and for them to decide the direction things will take after this.
“The time frame that is set, I believe, is 20 days, for them to come back after looking at the due diligence report. We will take it one step at a time,” Gobind said after witnessing the signing of a memorandum of understanding between DNB and Ericsson with enterprise partners to advance 5G for enterprises at DNB’s headquarters here today.
The new board members of DNB include CelcomDigi’s (Infranation Sdn Bhd) Datuk Kamal Khalid; Maxis Broadband Sdn Bhd’s V. Uthaya Kumar; U Mobile Sdn Bhd’s Chang Yit Fei and Tan Kok Leong; Telekom Malaysia Bhd’s Nik Azli Abu Zahar and Mohamed Tajul Mohamed Sultan; and YTL Power International Bhd’s Datuk Seri Yeoh Seok Hong and Datuk Dr Fadhlullah Suhaimi Abdul Malek.
The new members join incumbents Datuk Johan Mahmood Merican and M. Sivanesan.
Gobind said the second 5G network would be introduced after conditions of the SSA between mobile network operators and DNB are met.
“The latest pre-condition that has been met was the appointment of the directors, which was done last week, and of course the next step is for them to have the meeting,” he said.
— Bernama
