{"id":11715,"date":"2021-09-07T13:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11715"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:40:11","slug":"tech-firms-seek-meeting-with-malaysian-pm-on-cable-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/tech-firms-seek-meeting-with-malaysian-pm-on-cable-waiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Firms Seek Meeting with Malaysian PM on Cable Waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are seeking to meet with Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob to ask that foreign vessels be allowed to fix submarine cables in their waters again, a Google spokesperson said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The technology companies sent official correspondence to the new Prime Minister to review Malaysia&#8217;s cabotage policy, requesting reimbursement of an exemption lifted last year under the previous government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last November, the Malaysian government revoked the 2019 exemption, which allows non-Malaysian vessels to carry out repairs to submarine cables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia&#8217;s national Internet exchange body, Malaysia Internet Exchange (MyIX) is currently leading the engagement with the government by representing the four tech giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MyIX Chairman Chiew Kok Hin explained that the situation would have been different if the domestic industry were more developed and most companies had the necessary cable repair capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the original story from Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/tech-giants-seek-meeting-with-new-malaysian-pm-foreign-ship-cable-waiver-2021-09-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are seeking to meet with Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob to ask that foreign vessels be allowed to fix submarine cables in their waters again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-11715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11746,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions\/11746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}