Proton and YES Announce a Collaboration to Offer Malaysia’s First 4G Internet Car

Kuala Lumpur – February 22, 2012– Proton, Malaysia’s national automaker, and YES one of the most advanced 4G networks, today announced a collaboration to offer Malaysia’s first 4G internet cars. The two giants, will as the title puts it, will work together in taking advantage of each other’s strengths in vehicle engineering and mobile internet connectivity.

The high-speed mobile 4G connectivity would be a standard feature in future new Proton models. Thus excited customers would need to wait slightly longer as this new value added feature would soon be introduced in the soon-to-be launched sedan, the P3-21A. As in the speech today by PROTON Holdings Group Managing Director, Dato’ Sri Haji Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, he mentioned that the car could be out as soon as March this year.

The Proton cars will tap into the YES 4G mobile internet network which currently covers over 65% of the country’s populated areas. It is the only wireless network operator in the country that offers seamless 4G connectivity along the full 960km stretch of the North-South Expressway and a large portion of the East-Coast Expressway.

To mark this strategic collaboration, YES and Proton would be giving away a one-of-a-kind, special edition YES 4G internet enabled Proton Inspira worth RM100,000 as the main prize in the ‘Win Malaysia’s First 4G Internet Car’ Facebook contest. This extensively customized Proton Inspira features a special paint job and limited edition 18-inch rims in addiction to three units of Apple Ipad 2 and a YES huddle 4G wireless mobile router, all mounted on specially engineered fixtures in the vehicle.

The contest opens today and will run till 27 March 2012. For more information about the contest and full details of the special edition Proton Inspira powered by YES 4G, visit www.yes.my . -iK