At the same time, subscribers and national communications regulators demand fixed line and wireless operators to expand more coverage quickly, while operators worry about complying without busting the bank.

Quite often, coverage and speed are never enough, however much they try, while the more vocal users and information and communications technology (ICT) media pounces on them for falling short.

MIMOS or the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems is interested in implementing Multiple Input, Multiple Output or MIMO antenna technology in its future communication systems. These include the WiWi or WiMAX-WiFi networks its developing – which use WiMAX connections in the backhaul and affordable WiFi coverage of multiple local hotspots or hotzones -- and provide wireless broadband coverage, especially in outlying areas not already served by existing networks and it will use the mobile switching centre (MSC) and base station controller (BSC) concept for handoff. MIMOS expects to come out with its own designed base station at the end of the year or in early 2009.