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case of rural schools, which suffer inadequacies in every critical area. Not only
are rural schools under-equipped in terms of laptops, projectors and computer
labs, they would also suffer from bad Internet coverage.
At the same time, it is unlikely that their teachers would be competently trained,
while there is very little possibility of the students having computers and Internet
access at home, he said.
Zairil stressed that until these basic issues are addressed, the 1BestariNet
system will only serve to widen the urban-rural divide as well-supported urban
schools will have a clear advantage in accessing the system over their less
connected peers.
The 1BestariNet project, which aims to provide high-speed 4G internet access to
10,000 schools, was started over two years ago.
Last November, business weekly The Edge reported YTL Power International Bhd
executive director Datuk Yeoh Seok Hong as saying that his firm had won the
project through a competitive tender, beating other companies like Telekom
Malaysia Berhad.
The government will fork out a total of RM3 billion over 15 years to pay for the
4G network infrastructure and the maintenance of the Frog Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE), The Edge reported.
It also reported last November that 10 million students, parents and teachers are
expected to get IDs, which would enable them to use the VLE and get free
internet with broadband quota of 200MB for a year.
- See more at: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/with-poortech-reach-1bestarinet-will-leave-rural-students-further-behinds#sthash.3MvdDeGq.dpuf