Kota Kinabalu: Boosting Sabah’s Internet broadband access is vital to build a digital economy by Malaysia’s digital citizens.

“Anyone can run a business from anywhere with an Internet connection. In fact, you can even start a business without having your own inventory through drop ship.

“This is the kind of potential that broadband connectivity can offer,” Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said at the launch of Sabah Gateway or Gerbang Sabah with a globally connected underwater fibre optic cable link between West and East Malaysia  that will see capacity increase threefold from its initial capability of 4Tbps (terabytes per second) to 12.8 Tbps in the next three years prior to the advent of 5G services.