The saga regarding Malaysia’s government-driven project to deploy a single 5G national network continues to twist and turn. The four main MNOs in the country – Celcom Axiata, Digi, Maxis and U-Mobile – have thrown various objections at the scheme since it was mooted in 2018 as a way to accelerate 5G roll-out by creating one wholesale-only network on which all the operators could launch services. Earlier this year they insisted on being allowed to take a stake in the company set up to run the network, Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB). But then they balked at the government’s plan to sell 70% of that entity – but to allow five other companies to purchase stakes as well as the MNOs,…