'Low Yat 2', a retail and wholesale centre for telecommunications equipment like the Low Yat Plaza in Bukit Bintang, will be officially opened on Dec 8, said Rural and Regional Development Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

He said that in conjunction with the opening, the centre will be given a new name and logo.

"Thirty-six premises selling telecommunications equipment owned one hundred percent by bumiputera companies have been shorlisted to commence their business," he told reporters after attending the Innovation Day 2015 of the Rural and Regional Development Ministry in Kuala Lumpur.

Ismail Sabri hoped the centre would become the choice of the public in getting IT equipment and facilities.

The communications centre operating on the Third Floor, Menara Mara would sell IT products openly and independently with quality products, he said.

Ismail Sabri said if the pilot project of the sale centre for communications product was successful and received good response, Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) would expand the concept throughout the whole country.

Mara would upgrade all Mara Arcades and carry out a rebranding exercise to open up business opportunities and assist the rural community in developing their businesses, he said.

- Bernama