Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil has blasted a ministerial directive by Communications and Multimedia Minister Saifuddin Abdullah instructing the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) over the allocation to five firms with spectrum bands for mobile internet services without an open tender.

In a statement today, Fahmi called the directive to allocate the telecommunications spectrum of 700 Megahertz (Mhz) shocking and...