Telegram has been granted an Application Service Provider (ASP) C Licence to operate in Malaysia, becoming the third service provider to be licensed under the new requirements for Internet messaging and social media service providers. Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) is still in the process of obtaining its license, while Tencent (WeChat) and ByteDance (TikTok) have already been granted licenses. The Minister of Communications, Fahmi Fadzil, stated that Google's licensing is still under discussion due to their classification of YouTube as not being social media.
: Service provider, Telegram has been granted an Application Service Provider C Licence to operate in Malaysia , said Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil.
“But we expect the process to be completed in the near future,“ he said at a press conference after witnessing the exchange of documents for the Melaka Digital Village Initiative agreement between MCMC and the Melaka Government, here today. Fahmi said that for Google’s licensing, he had asked MCMC to continue its engagement and informed that action would continue if there were matters that violated communications laws.
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