Mobile users in Indonesia will grow to 94.7 million in 2007 vs 68 million at the end of 2006, according to a report from ROA Group. The telecommunication industry will post about 18 percent of CAGR starting in 2008, and the number of users will increase to 133 million by 2010. Indonesian mobile market is driven by service coverage, reduced rate of tariff plans and handsets. The Indonesian mobile operators, which have obtained licenses to provide nation-wide services, are expected to expand their service coverage rapidly. Accordingly, mobile users will increase substantially in the suburban areas and small towns. In the metropolitan areas, PT Telkom and PT Indosat will lead the introduction of bundled services and mobile convergence. The CDMA operators, Bakrie Telkom and Mobile-8 in particular, will utilise radical measures to lure new users over the next three years.
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