The existing 6500 households in the 2670 acre Bandar Tasik Puteri in Rawang (a township in Selangor, Malaysia) can subscribe to Jaring wireless broadband service following the memorandum-of-understanding reached between Jaring, the developer Asia Pacific Land Berhad and Wi-Fi service provider BTP Wireless Sdn Bhd in May.

Formed by five of the township’s residents, BTP will installed over 200 Wi-Fi access point serving homes, schools and public area in the township, while Jaring provides the trunk connection to the Internet backbone.

Subscribe pay RM84 (US$23) for 1 Mbps unlimited monthly access including a MY015 VoIP phone line for calling other 015 prefix subscribers anywhere in the world for free and other numbers for a modest fee.

BTP Wireless will begin installing its Wi-Fi infrastructure within 90 days of the MoU and the service will be packaged free with houses in new phases thereon. The developer plans to build up to 25000 houses in the township by 2008.

Jaring also plans to provide the service to surrounding developments like Desa Puteri, Green Valley Park, Puteri Heights, Garden Heights and Indah Heights and subscribers will also have access to Jaring’s network anywhere in country.

According to Jaring CEO Dr Mohd Bin Awang Lah, Jaring’s network covers 90% of Malaysia and has captured 700,000 subscribers nationwide.