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KUALA LUMPUR: To reduce the digital gap, the government has enhanced by RM300 the subsidy for buying smart phones for B40 households with schoolgoing children under the Prihatin Network Programme, said Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
The prime minister said the allocation for the Prihatin Network Programme has been increased to RM2 billion, and it would be launched in May.
“I appeal to telecommunication companies to offer affordable internet packages and continue to provide additional data quota,” he said when unveiling the RM20 billion Strategic Programme to Empower the People and the Economy (Pemerkasa), which was aired live on television today.