Digi Telecommunications or Digi.Com Berhad ( d.b.a. digi; ), is a mobile service provider in Malaysia. Its largest shareholder was

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with 49%. On 24 May 1995, Digi became the first telco in Malaysia to launch and operate a fully digital cellular network. They were also the first to offer GPRS (2.5G) and later

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(2.75G) in Malaysia on 14 May 2004. DiGi primarily uses the 1800 MHz band for GSM with the network code of 502-16. Digi is listed on the

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under the Infrastructure category act. It uses the native dialling prefix identifier of "010", "011 16000000 through 16499999", "016", "0143", "0146" and "0149", although with the implementation of

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mandated by the Malaysian government this does not apply to subscribers who switched from their old mobile service provider over to Digi. At the moment, switching to Digi is free. On 21 June 2021,

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and Digi agree to a potential merger of

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and Digi to create a stronger telco in Malaysia, coming after advanced discussions that took place two months earlier. If approved, the merger will be completed by the end of 2022. The deal was approved by both Celcom and Digi shareholders on 18 November 2022. The merged company is named CelcomDigi. At completion, Axiata and Telenor will hold equal ownership of 33.1% each in the newly merged company. The merger was completed on 30 November 2022 and the company began its operation the next day.

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Digi operates 2G EDGE, 4G LTE and 4G LTE-A networks. As of December 2017, Digi has 4G LTE coverage of 90% on populated areas,. LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) population coverage was at 70% nationwide, likely measured at the lowest signal quality at -110dBm. Digi Telecommunications Sdn. Bhd. provides a variety of mobile communication services. These services include voice under their prepaid plans & postpaid plans,

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, data plans and services, international roaming, international calling card and

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services. Digi is the second operator in Malaysia to launch VoLTE, initially available to iPhones running iOS 10.1 and above.

Subscribers

As of second quarter of 2018, Digi had 11.659 million subscribers (9.004 million prepaid, and 2.655 million postpaid customers). Prepaid ARPU is at RM32 (down from RM34 in 4Q 2017) while postpaid ARPU is at RM76 (down from RM77 in 1Q 2018). The Telco said that it had 76.1% smartphone penetration. Digi had 8.76 million mobile Internet subscribers (75.1%), in which 7.1 million subscribers are using 4G LTE.

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