Malaysia’s controversial plan to build a wholesale-only 5G network has been dogged with problems since it was first mooted in 2019, and the CEO of the company set up to implement it has hit out at the MNOs for their lack of support. The country’s national MNOs – Celcom, Digi.com, Maxis and U Mobile – have opposed the plan on the basis that it does not enable them to differentiate sufficiently. Ralph Marshall, head of the government-backed Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB), said the single wholesale network (SWN) had been “inordinately delayed” as a result of “posturing” by operators, which meant Malaysia’s 5G progress was now well behind that of neighbors such as Singapore or Thailand (both of which launched services…