bursa malaysia industry telecommunication founded 1995 publicly listed 1997 known as mutiara swisscom bhd. the name of digi swisscom bhd. the holding company of digi telecommunications sdn . bhd. was changed to digi.com berhad in 2000 headquarters d house subang hi tech industrial park shah alam selangor key people albern murty ceo sigve brekke chairman haroon bhatti chief human resource officer karl erik br ten chief financial officer loh keh jiat chief marketing officer eugene teh chief corporate affairs officer kesavan sivabalan chief network officer orsolya sekerka chief it officer praveen rajan nadarajan chief digital officer products telecommunication services mobile services cable television revenue myr 6.914 billion 2015 1 myr 7.019 billion 2014 2 myr 6.733 billion 2013 3 net income myr 1.723 billion 2015 4 myr 2.031 billion 2014 5 myr 1.706 billion 2013 6 number of employees 1 500 subsidiaries digi telecomunications sdn . bhd. pay by mobile sdn . bhd. website www.digi.com.my digi telecommunications sdn . bhd. dba digi is a mobile service provider in malaysia . it is owned in majority by telenor asa of norway 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 2.5 g and later edge 2.75 g 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 bursa malaysia under the infrastructure category act . it uses the native dialling prefix identifier of 010 016 0143 0146 and 0149 although with the implementation of mobile number portability 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 . contents 1 coverage products and services 1.1 subscribers 2 top shareholders 3 competitors 4 awards and achievements 5 branding 5.1 yellow coverage fellow tvcs 6 references 7 external links coverage products and services edit digi logo until 2015 as of april 2016 digi has 2g coverage of 95 % on populated areas 3g at 87 % 7 4g lte at 73 % . lte advanced lte a population coverage is currently at 33 % nationwide likely measured at the lowest signal quality at 110dbm . 8 digi operates 2g gsm gprs edge 3g wcdma hspa 4g lte network . 9 digi telecommunications sdn . bhd. provides a variety of mobile communication services . these services include voice under their prepaid plans & postpaid plans sms data plans and services international roaming international calling card and wap services . digi telecommunications sdn . bhd. started a project called happy . a group of digi telecommunications sdn . bhd. staff handle this special project and provide a new brand of mobile virtual network operators mvno called happy prepaid . digi is also the second operator to offer the iphone on 1 april 2010 . digi is the first telco in malaysia to introduce mobile number selection service which was implemented in 2008 . this service enable the subscriber to choose their own number instead of following the traditional way of purchasing a new sim that has been pre assign with fix mobile number . since december 2011 digi began upgrading its network of 5 000 network sites to lte . the upgrade is to allow expanding its edge and 3g services into using dual channel hspa to 95.8 % of malaysians and having a greener and energy efficient environment . frequencies used on digi network in malaysia frequency frequency width protocol notes 900 mhz 886 888 886 888 2 2 mhz e gsm 1800 mhz 1760 1785 1855 1880 2 25 mhz gsm lte 2x10mhz for lte 2100 mhz 1935 1950 2125 2140 2 15 mhz umts hspa 2600 mhz 2560 2570 2680 2690 2 10 mhz lte subscribers edit as of second quarter of 2016 digi has 12.35 million subscribers 10.39 million prepaid and 1.95 million postpaid customers . 64.5 % are internet users . about 62 % digi subscribers are smartphone users . there are 6 million prepaid internet users . the telco said that it now has 3.3 million 4g lte users . postpaid arpu is at rm82 upfrom rm80 in q1 2016 while prepaid arpu is at rm34 down from rm35 in q1 2016 . 10 digi is the largest mobile operator in malaysia in terms of subscribers . top shareholders edit digi top 5 shareholders are as below as of october 2015 . 11 top 5 shareholders name shares percent notes telenor asa 3 809 750 300 49.0 % employees provident fund board 1 094 568 640 14.1 % permodalan nasional berhad 695 174 600 8.94 % time dotcom bhd. 234 857 045 3.02 % public mutual berhad 146 566 800 1.89 % competitors edit digi competes directly with maxis celcom and u mobile mobile virtual network operator mvno tunetalk 1 and xox . digi also competes indirectly with broadband services provider such as tm p1 redtone amax and yes 4g awards and achievements edit in 2014 digi was ranked 100th on forbes world s most innovative companies 2014 . 12 digi was the only malaysian company and the only telecommunications operator from asia to be on the list . in 2015 channel news asia ranked digi as one of the top 3 companies in malaysia 13 and ranked 40 in asia top 100 sustainability ranking . 14 digi is lauded for its preemptive measures to safeguard the privacy of its 11.4 million customers by adopting the iso 27000 information security management system certification and conducting third party independent assessments to strengthen its privacy systems and processes . 13 branding edit yellow coverage fellow tvcs edit at the end of 2006 digi relaunched its brand campaign after 18 months of absence with yellow coverage fellow or more officiously called ycf through a series of television commercials . originally called yellow man until renamed by digi s marketing team ycf was created by naga ddb digi s advertising agency . entitled digi yellow and taglined digi s widest coverage . always with you . the commercials incorporated an upbeat theme song i will follow you that is based on the 1963 billboard hot 100 no. 1 song i will follow him by little peggy march . public response to the campaign was very positive . the first five notes of the peggy march song has since been made into the main jingle for future digi advertisements . references edit digi media room . digi media room . digi media room . digi media room . digi media room . digi media room . digi delivers malaysia s widest 4g lte network . retrieved 26 april 2016 . digi added more subscribers in 1q16 now at 12.3 million . retrieved 26 april 2016 . malaysian communications and multimedia commission mcmc suruhanjaya komunikasi dan multimedia malaysia skmm mobile services . retrieved 17 july 2015 . kugan . digi has 12.35 million subscribers as of 2q16 4g lte coverage at 76 % . malaysianwireless . retrieved 21 july 2016 . digi.com bhd dsom . kugan . digi listed in the forbes world s most innovative companies 2014 . malaysianwireless . retrieved 17 july 2015 . a b 2015 top 3 companies by countries . channel news asia . retrieved 21 october 2015 . line feed character in title at position 21 help celebrate the success of the top 100 companies in asia 2015 . channel news asia . retrieved 21 october 2015 . line feed character in title at position 29 help external links edit official website v t e mobile phone companies of malaysia mobile operators celcom digi maxis u mobile mobile virtual network operator altel redone tron tune talk xox i tel prabhu mobile merchantrade 7 eleven speak out wireless mobile wimax operators packet one networks yes 4g v t e telecommunications in malaysia pstn operators jaring maxis tm time dotcom mobile network operators altel celcom digi maxis u mobile p1 tron redone yes 4g v t e fbmklci companies of malaysia as of 20 december 2013 ammb holdings astro malaysia holdings axiata group british american tobacco malaysia cimb group holdings digi.com felda global ventures holdings genting genting malaysia hong leong bank hong leong financial ihh healthcare ioi ioi 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