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3 unusual facts about maxis


Altobridge

The first Altobridge lite-site was commissioned on the Maxis network in Sarawak, Malaysia in 2007.

History of communications in Malaysia

In 2013, Maxis Malaysia Sdn Bhd became the first provider to introduce "4G LTE" mobile network before any other service provider.

Shaun Chen

Prior to coming to Singapore, Chen was a former spectacles dealer and model in Malaysia and used to be the face on billboards for Maxis, Malaysia's largest telecom operator.


Ananda Krishnan

Currently, he has business interests in media (Astro, Johnston Press Plc), satellite (MEASAT), oil and gas (Bumi Armada, Pexco), telecommunications (Maxis, Aircel, Axis, Sri Lanka Telecom).

Artdink

By far Artdink's biggest international success was the award-winning A-Train (known in Japan as A Ressha de Ikou, or "Take the A-Train") strategy game released for the PC and Amiga, which was published by SimCity creators Maxis.

Australian Sailing magazine

The readership includes owners and crew of the 100 ft maxis, keelboat racers, dinghy and sailboard racers.

Sandip Das

In 2007, following the likes of Vodafone’s Arun Sarin and Orange’s Sanjiv Ahuja, India boasted another helmsman in the International Telecoms Space when Sandip Das was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Maxis Communications Berhad, the largest telecommunications operator in Malaysia.

In November 2009, Sandip led the Maxis’s re-listing on the Malaysian Stock Exchange (Bursa Malaysia) in what was Southeast Asia’s biggest IPO worth over US$3 billion.

Section sign

A modified version of the section sign is used in the Maxis games SimCity 3000 and later and in The Sims series, as the symbol of the in-game currency, the simoleon.

SimTower

The South China Morning Post praised the game's formula, noting that it followed in the footsteps of previous open-ended Maxis games.

Steve Perrin

He worked at Interplay Productions, Maxis, and Spectrum Holobyte, doing game design, playtesting, and writing manuals for such computer games as Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, SimCity 2000, and Flight of the Intruder to name but a few.

Television in Malaysia

However, Astro is the first broadcast company in Malaysia that introduce the IPTV services, branded as Astro B.yond IPTV in collaboration with Maxis and Time.

The Style Council

All of The Style Council's UK releases (including singles, 12" maxis, albums, compact discs and re-issues thereof) featured the work of graphic designer Simon Halfon, who often collaborated with Weller to hone his ideas into a graphic form.


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