Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has given MyDigital ID and Digital Nasional Bhd (DNB) a mid-December deadline to tackle delays in the implementation of two national digital initiatives – MyDigital ID and the second 5G network.

Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the prime minister considered the implementation of MyDigital ID to be late because, as of yesterday, only 1.319 million Malaysians had registered in the database.

As such, he said Anwar has also given...