HomeComm began as the brainchild of Abdul Razak Latiff, owner and Managing Director of the ARL Group of Companies. It began as a concept and after 2-3 years of proactive effort and painstaking research, Abdul Razak Latiffidentified the business opportunity to establish a company involved in providing information, communications and multimedia services i.e. Community Multimedia Network Services (CMNS).

As an avid Internet user, Abdul Razak Latiff realized the need for the information on the Net to be more systematic and practical to encourage more Malaysians to use the Internet. Hence, came the idea to create a networked society, but implemented on a community-by-community basis. Abdul Razak Latiff's vision was to create a platform for the development of networked communities akin to K-Economy which encourages the systematic and practical development of e-commerce, home banking, e-education, e-medicine, smart schools, interactive TV, entertainment on demand, value added telecommunications services and other multimedia and network services.

Abdul Razak Latiff was also of the opinion that there was a need for the formation of an E-Malaysia web portal as it can bring some co-ordination to various web portal building efforts by public, private and community sectors. This will help solve the problem of having to search through the massive information available on the Internet and the need to remember URL addresses. With a structured, multi-tiered and easy to navigate platform, all information on HomeComm is categorized in such a way that whether you are looking for information at the community, state, national or global level, you can find the information with a minimum of two to three clicks of your mouse.