Malaysia’s journey in rolling out 5G telecommunication services has been one peppered with controversy. The initial consortia method was met with derision from the industry, with players jostling to be in the driver’s seat in the rollout of the next great money spinner for the telecommunications industry. It was the followed by an uproar when a few months later, the highly sought-after 5G spectrum was awarded without an open tender by the Perikatan Nasional administration to five companies, but after that massive public backlash, the decision was quickly revoked. Then came the controversial decision to roll out 5G via a government-owned entity, under a single wholesale network . The decision to entrust the 5G rollout to Digital Nasional Bhd ( DNB ) drew the inevitable criticism from many parties, and it was a decision that had not been carried out elsewhere with any degree of success as concerns centred over the effectiveness of the model, which was never tested elsewhere in the world