Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the Cabinet felt that there was a need to revisit certain laws in an effort to provide better protection to children and women against pornographic activities and sexual violence.

“We will make a full announcement on this once we have begun a series of engagements across different ministries.

“For example, we need to study whether parts of the Communications and Multimedia Act need to be amended to save and protect women and children.

“This must be done without curbing whatever commitments the government has made to IT companies before,” he said after opening the Selangor PKR information convention at a hotel near here today.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, when tabling Budget 2023 on Friday, said a special team under the police D11 Unit would be established exclusively to combat child pornography. It would cooperate with various agencies to apprehend the perpetrators involved.

On the ministry’s engagement yesterday with Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) and all telecommunication service providers to discuss 5G coverage in the country, Fahmi said a decision on whether to maintain the single wholesale network model in rolling out the network would be reached by the end of March.

“More importantly, we want to have 5G coverage in 80% of populated areas by the end of 2023, and the price should be reasonable to the people.”

He said a decision on the cooperation between DNB and telecommunication companies in implementing the 5G network would also be reached soon.

He said the engagement session discussed, among other things, the need for DNB to be managed in a more transparent and open manner.

Last month, Fahmi was reported as saying that the ministry was expected to make an announcement on the 5G implementation by DNB with several improvements by the end of March.