The hardest part of building a mobile tower in Malaysia is not the tower. It is being allowed to put it up.

Six years after founding EdgePoint Infrastructure, Suresh Sidhu is candid about what he underestimated, and it was not the engineering. Even with a federal licence from the industry regulator, tower operators in Malaysia must still win authorisation to build state by state.

“You have a federal licence which is given by MCMC, but you can’t really operate in every state,” the chief executive and founder explained in a recent interview with Tech Wire Asia. “It does take a tremendous amount of effort, education, and positioning yourself as good people with good intentions. We expected that to take a lot of time, and it has.”

That gap, between how the tower business looks from outside and how it actually works, runs through EdgePoint’s six years in Malaysia. The company started from zero in 2020, grew partly by acquiring smaller local operators, and now owns close to 2,000 sites in the country and roughly 16,000 across Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, making it one of the region’s largest independent tower operators. 

Link: https://techwireasia.com/2026/07/edgepoint-suresh-sidhu-sovereign-ai-malaysia-towers/