2. Who Better Represents Malaysian Students?
http://www.moe.gov.my/ A For-Profit Entity
Who is a More Appropriate Partner with the Khan Academy?
3. “MOU with YTL” Scenario
YTL, as A Primary Partner, Will Be
an Intermediary to the Malaysian Students
Primary
Partner
Gatekeeper
(?)
4. “MOU with YTL” Scenario
YTL, as a Primary Partner,
Locks-In its Frog Platform for the Malaysian MOE
1st 5-Year 2nd 5-Year 3rd 5-Year
RM$1.5 B RM$1.5 B RM$1.5 B
Contract 1 Contract Contract
As a Primary Partner,
YTL can Claim Technology Lock-In
via the Frog Window to the KA Infrastructure
to Strengthen Its Bid for the 2nd & 3rd Contracts
1 Appendix 1. As of March 2012, US$1 = RM$3.03
5. Alternate “MOU with MOE” Scenario
The Malaysian MOE, as a Primary Partner,
Uses YTL as a Technology Enabler
Primary Partner
Free to
Choose
Other Tech
Enablers
For 2nd & 3rd
Contracts
Technology
Enabler
7. A1
YTL Communications and the MOE Tender
YTL Comms is the frontrunner for the RM1.5bil 1Bestarinet to wire up schools
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2011%2F10%2F28%2Fbusiness%2F
9788864&sec=business (emphasis added)
The contract is for a five-year period, with an option to extend for another five
plus five years, totalling 15 years, and this would include installation,
maintenance and provision of a VLM.
This tender bid which opened on May 5 saw over 80 companies collecting the
tender documents.
YTL took a 20% stake Frog (UK) - Sep 2010 announcement
http://www.prlog.org/10926539-frog-announces-strategic-partnership-with-ytl.html
http://www.yaba.org.uk/newsletter/summer-2011/66/company-update-frogtrade
