Telkomsel warn market saturation in Indonesia, aim for 15m new subscribers

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: According to Indonesia’s largest mobile operator, Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel), the growth potential in the local market is ‘shrinking’ and will hit a plateau in two year The company expects to get at least 15 million of about 35 million new users expected.

An aggressively competitive mobile sector driven by a wave of tariff cutting in the world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia,  has expanded to around 165 million users. With 85 million customers, up from just 16.3 million users at 31 December 2004, Telkomsel aims to reach 100-million subscribers by the end of 2010.

Although a surplus of smaller operators exist in Indonesia, Telkomsel controls a little over 50% of the market ahead of major rivals Indosat and Excelcomindo.