Malaysia's national telco TM is in the first stages of testing 5G connectivity in the country.

The test will be conducted via their internet service provider division Unifi and the first location will be in the town of Puchong in the Petaling Jaya district.

Currently, the telco's LTE network is capable of speeds up to 200Mbps, but with the implementation of pre-5G, the speeds will be boosted up to 500Mbps.

The Executive Vice President of Unifi Moharmustaqeem Mohammed stated that the transition to 5G will be done seamlessly and customers will not have to change their current packages or equipment.

TM decided to pick the town of Puchong because it consist of a number of residential and businesses. It would be a perfect location to test the network based on their lifestyles and requirements

Moharmustaqeem Mohammed, Executive Vice President of Unifi. IMAGE: LiveatPC.com

Lowyat.net has noted that even if TM is advertising 500Mbps speeds, users will probably not see these blazing fast speeds.

Users can, however, expect to see speeds of 30 to 80Mbps, which is still better than the 5 to 20Mbps that the network is currently offering.

TM has not disclosed if the test will come to other parts of the country but they did mention that this pre-5G network is just one innovation they're working on.

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