Infonet sister companies, 8TV, TV9 and NTV7, are transmitting teletext. Infonet ceased operation from 1 January 2008. Therefore, there are now no TV stations transmitting Teletext in Malaysia. Infonet uses the BBC Ceefax teletext system. Infonet Infonet was a Malaysian teletext service. It was formerly known as Beriteks (a combination of the Malay word "Berita", meaning "news", and "Teks", which is a borrowed word from the English language meaning "text"). The teletext system was launched on 2 June 1985 by TV3. While RTM1 and RTM2 were still transmitting Teletext, the contents of the transmission were different from those offered by TV3's
Teletext as the internet, whereby pages are 'requested' and then 'sent' to the user – a method not possible given the one-way nature of broadcast teletext. Unlike the Internet, teletext is broadcast, so it does not slow down further as the number of users increase, although the greater number of pages, the longer one is likely to wait for each to be found in the cycle. For this reason, some pages (e.g. common index pages) are broadcast more than once in each cycle. Teletext proved to be a reliable text news service during events such as the September 11 terrorist attacks,