KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s multi-billion-dollar state-led 5G rollout plan, which is facing a stiff pushback from domestic mobile telecommunications companies, is drawing more heat over the government’s proposed deployment of the potentially lucrative cloud services platform.

Domestic telcos, incensed over being denied the rights to own the spectrum under the proposed fifth-generation wireless roll-out, are griping that they are being victimised further by the little-discussed plan to allow three local entities to be preferred partners for cloud service providers Microsoft, Google and Amazon that will build and manage hyper-scale data storage centres.

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