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MALAYSIA’S exclusion from major subsea optic cable investments meant to upgrade the Internet infrastructure could stunt the quality of the country’s connectivity and hinder it from achieving the goals of the Malaysia Digital Economic blueprint (MyDigital).Malaysia has missed out on two subsea cable system investments under the purview of tech giants Facebook Inc and Google LLC, namely Echo and Bifrost, and is now set to add the Apricot subsea cable system to the list.MIDF Research estimates Malaysia’s exclusion from the Facebook and Google-backed Apricot subsea cable will result in a loss of high-capacity connectivity and investment worth US$300 million-US$400 million (RM1.26 billon-RM1.68 billion). ....

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