Sunny Ho appointed as chief executive officer of Straits comms subsidiary
KUALA LUMPUR: ACE Marketlisted Straits Energy Resources Bhd (Straits), has further cemented its entry into the 5G landscape with the appointment of telecommunications specialist Sunny Ho to lead its indirect subsidiary Straits CommNet Solutions Sdn Bhd.
Ho, who has led various key sections in Digital Nasional Bhd, Axiata’s Edotco, Nokia Malaysia and Ascom, among others, will spearhead Straits’ push into the 5G-driven digital space and Internet of Things (IoT) transformation of the regional oil and gas (O&G) industry.
Ho will drive Straits CommNet to explore the vast wireless network communication and infrastructure business opportunities in the 4G and 5G rollout of Malaysia and regionally, further expanding the group’s business exposure and revenue stream. His appointment as the chief executive officer of Straits CommNet effective February 3, 2022 is announced less than three months after Straits’ joined hands with Texasbased Baicells Technologies Co Ltd, which provides innovative 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G New Radio (“NR”) access solutions in its first collaboration initiative.
John Ho was also appointed as chief operating officer of Straits CommNet effective January 3, 2022.
Straits managing director Datuk Seri Ron Ho said: “It is our great pleasure to welcome Sunny
Ho and John Ho, who are both the directors of Straits CommNet, into the management team. The appointments will immediately put us on an accelerated path towards establishing our footprint in the 5G and the O&G IoT market.
“Through our active participation in the oil and gas industry, we noticed that there are huge under-tapped areas of opportunities in terms of digitalisation and IoT. With many processes and functionalities remain traditionally or minimally-digitalised, Straits want to be a disruptor by incorporating 4G and 5G enabled technologies such as IoT into the daily processes within the industry. The ultimate goal is to raise productivity and to make the processes more efficient.
“Following our collaboration with Baicells Technologies, we are in a better position to roll out our services and under the leadership of Sunny Ho, I am optimistic that we would be able to tap into the right opportunities and grow this new segment into an important revenue generator for the group.”
On November 16, 2021, Straits entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Baicells Technologies to collaborate and drive the growing wireless network communication business opportunities of the 4G and 5G rollout and the digital transformation of the O&G industry through the IoT in Malaysia and regionally.
Baicells Technologies’ vision of ‘Connect the Unconnected’ has led to the establishment of offices across five of the seven continents and the development of 300 patents since its inception in 2014. Baicells Technologies currently boast over 700 private LTE networks across the world, with a large percentage of those trusted networks operating within North America.