General Govt: No decision yet on 6% service tax for prepaid telephone users

 - General  Govt: No preference nonetheless upon 6% use taxation for prepaid write users

The government has nonetheless to decide either or not to terminate a six per cent use ! taxation upon p repaid write users as has been announced by telecommunication companies (telco), a Dewan Rakyat was told today.

Deputy Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Joseph Salang pronounced a taxation was one of a major revenue earners for a country.

"The preference to be made may also depend upon a telco," he pronounced in reply to a extra question from Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (PKR-Machang) upon a matter.

Responding to a question from Amran Ab. Ghani (PKR-Tanah Merah), Salang pronounced 1,692 locations had been identified for a implementation of a ministry's Wireless Village project.

The project, being carried out in stages, was scheduled for completion finish of subsequent year, he added.

"A sum of 1,408 villages national have been versed with a wifi use as of final Sept 23, though a total do not include wireless entrance centres in Penang and Miri, Sarawak," he added.

He pronounced a plan had been developed in selected areas during by-elections, similar to Kerdau, Pahang: Merlimau, Melaka; Tenang, Johor; Gua Musang, Kelantan and Sibu, Sarawak.

To a extra question from Amran upon a preference of a villages for a wifi project, Salang pronounced it was based upon 3 categorical criteria, that enclosed population.

"The other dual criteria are its location, either a encampment is nearby to an area that already has entrance to 3G, etc, and either a encampment already has wire service, similar to bound write line," he added.

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