Bintai Kinden, MNP in venture to provide telecom services to hospitals

Bintai Kinden Corp Bhd wholly owned sub-subsidiary Johnson Medical International Sdn Bhd (JMI) has formalised a venture with MN Permai Netcom Sdn Bhd (MNP) for the sale, marketing and installation of telecommunication services to healthcare centres and other medical sites governed by the Ministry of Health.

JMI specialises in healthcare solutions and medical support systems while MNP is an end-to-end telecommunication solutions provider covering smart fibre-to-thehome, smart cloud solutions, broadband, 3G as well as 4G/5G offload, smart poles and business cloud solutions, among others.

Under the agreement, JMI will market telecommunication services to the ministry or any private hospital provided by MNP, which will be involved in sale as well as the installation of the services.

Services provided by MNP include managing the backhaul network, supplying and installing access network equipment, interconnection with third parties, as well as designing the interconnection and backhaul network infrastructure.

Other services are designing the infrastructure access network, maintaining the access network, supplying and installing technicalbased on-site requirements, and providing maintenance services.

Bintai Kinden executive director Azri Azerai said this agreement leverages on the strengths of both parties.

“JMI has a network of hospital contacts with a solid presence in Malaysia and understand the needs of hospitals and people who work in them. We listen to our customers and want to provide them with services or products that solves their problems or fulfil their needs.

“The telecommunications services offered by MNP enable faster data transfer speed as well as application performance, faster streaming of videos, reduce buffering, increase data transfer capability and enable interactivity.”

MNP managing director Malik Faizal Bakar said ever since its establishment in 2014, it has expanded to become a provider of comprehensive services ranging from planning, building, operating and optimising networks including inside plant solutions, outside plant solutions and technical support.

“We also have the expertise in managing large telco infrastructure projects as we were awarded a 120km fibre optic project in Penang.”