MTel receives nearly 1,000 Internet applications

The city’s new fixed-line telecommunication service provider MTel Telecommunication Company Ltd. has received applications from nearly 1,000 users in residential buildings for its broadband Internet service, the chairman and CEO of the company, Choi Tak Meng, told reporters last week. In addition, Mr. Choi said that the MTel network covered 36 per cent of the Macau Peninsula, 33 per cent of Taipa and 43 per cent of Coloane. He explained that the lower coverage in Taipa is due to the construction of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) there.