History of communications in Malaysia

The first telegraph line

The first telegraph line connected the British Resident at Perak House in Kuala Kangsar to the house of Deputy British Resident in Perak at Taiping, and was laid by the Department of Posts and Telegraph in 1874.^[1] This telegraph line measured 42.5 km and travelled across a forest at Bukit Berapit, and signalled the beginning of the era of telecommunications in Malaysia. However, during Japanese occupation in World War II, the telegraph lines were nearly completely destroyed by the Japanese army.

The telecommunications in Malaysia

In 1967, the SEACOM cable line was introduced, connecting Peninsula Malaysia to Sarawak via the South China Sea.^[2]
In 1983, the Data Telecommunications System (Datel) was introduced.
In 1985, the ATUR, first wireless telephone system was introduced by Jabatan Telekom Malaysia (JTM).
In 1987, JTM was incorporated as Syarikat Telekom Malaysia Berhad (STMB) or Telekom Malaysia (TM) following the National Corporatization Policy, which was launched in the 1980s.
In 1988, Celcom Malaysia Sdn Bhd was founded under its name STM Cellular Communications Sdn Bhd. It was the first to provide GSM based mobile services.
In 1992, Celcom was controlled by Technology Resource Berhad (TRI).
In 1997, Telekom Malaysia introduced CDMA based mobile homeline services.
In 2003, Celcom Malaysia Sdn Bhd became the first provider to introduce video call base on 3G WCDMA technology.
In 2008, Packet One Networks Malaysia Sdn Bhd became the first provider to introduce Wireless Wimax Service on 802.16e spectrum technology.^[3]
In 2013, Maxis Malaysia Sdn Bhd became the first provider to introduce "4G LTE" mobile network before any other service provider.^[4]

Evolution of telecommunications

As of 2015, there are 4 licensed cellular operators in Malaysia: Celcom, DiGi Telecommunications, Maxis Communications and U Mobile.

End of Telegram Services

In June 2012, Telekom Malaysia announced the discontinuation of telegram services with effect from 1 July 2012.^[5]

Notes

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Pioneers	Edwin Howard Armstrong John Logie Baird Paul Baran Alexander Graham Bell Tim Berners-Lee Jagadish Chandra Bose Vint Cerf Claude Chappe Donald Davies Lee de Forest Philo Farnsworth Reginald Fessenden Elisha Gray Erna Schneider Hoover Charles K. Kao Hedy Lamarr Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi Antonio Meucci Radia Perlman Alexander Stepanovich Popov Johann Philipp Reis Nikola Tesla Camille Tissot Alfred Vail Charles Wheatstone Vladimir K. Zworykin
Transmission media	Characteristic impedance Coaxial cable Electromagnetic radiation Electrical cable Free-space optical communication Heaviside condition Loading coil Molecular communication Optical fiber Telegrapher's equations
Network topology and switching	Links Nodes Terminal node Network switching (circuit packet) Telephone exchange
Multiplexing	Space-division Frequency-division Time-division Polarization-division Orbital angular-momentum Code-division
Networks	ARPANET BITNET Cellular network Computer CYCLADES Ethernet FidoNet Internet ISDN LAN Mobile NGN NPL network Public Switched Telephone Radio Telecommunications equipment Television Telex WAN Wireless World Wide Web
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