www.WirelessFederation.com/news: USD100 million submarine fibre-optic network cables for PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom Indonesia) have been signed off by Japanese ICT-based business solutions provider Fujitsu Limited in partnership with Germany’s Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke (NSW).

Indonesian islands Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Java, Bali and Lombok will be connected by the new link and will allow inhabitants living there to access broadband-speed internet services, including e-commerce, video, data, and voice telephony services.

Named as ‘JaKa2LaDeMa’, the cable was successfully tested in April this year and has been expected to dramatically increase data transmission capacity between the islands. The cable will afford business and residential users on Kalimantan and Sulawesi their first high-bandwidth services and has also been hailed critical to Bali, a key commercial centre for Indonesia.