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Telkom looks for loans worth $756Mn for expansion plans in 2009 (Indonesia)

  • November 26th, 2008
  • 12:59 pm

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), looks for loans worth $756 million from local financial institutions for its expansion plans in 2009. It is understood Telkom may approach the likes of PT Bank Mandiri, PT Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) to cover as much as 40% percent of its entire $17.9 trillion CAPEX plan. The group’s mobile arm Telkomsel is investing around $10.7 million in order to boast its business after lowered quaterly profits from past two years.

   

No plans to be fourth mobile operator - Telkom (South Africa)

  • November 7th, 2008
  • 6:13 am

Africa’s biggest fixed line operator Telkom it says no plans to launch a new mobile service in South Africa after Vodafone takes control of Vodacom, though the operator is looking forward for a roaming agreement with an incumbent which would enable Telkom subscribers to make mobile calls with other operator’s network.
“We don’t intend to be a fourth mobile phone operator in South Africa,” says Telkom CEO Reuben September.

   

Telkom plans to acquire stake in TCI (Iran, Indonesia)

  • October 22nd, 2008
  • 4:54 am

Telkom, Indonesia, plans to acquire a stake in Iran’s Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI). 5% of TCI was sold by the gvernment through an IPO and intends to sell stakes further to an overseas operator.‘Telkom is ready to become its strategic partner. It is not yet certain how many shares we will acquire but if they (Iran) are willing to release up to 20% it is not impossible for us to participate,’ says Telkom’s chief commissioner, Tanri Abeng. Telkom plans to buy stakes through its subsidiary PT Telkom Internasional Indonesia. ‘The establishment of TII is part of the company’s strategy to go international to increase its non-organic income growth,’ Tanri says.

   

Indonesia’s mobile penetration may reach 62.4% in 2010 (Indonesia)

  • September 1st, 2008
  • 6:55 am

Indonesia’s mobile market has growing rapidly with the number of subscribers heading for 120 million in 2008, up from 90 million in early 2008, having grown by nearly 40% in 2007. There is vast opportunity for market expansion in Indonesia when compared with some of its Asian neighbours.  For strong growth to continue, the sector must take advantage of the government’s regulatory changes and find ways of attracting more foreign capital into the market place. Value-added services have become important and 3G has arrived.

OPERATOR                                 SUBSCRIBERS (IN MILLION)
Telkomsel                                                   50.55
Indosat                                                      26.42
Excelcomindo                                              22.42
PT Mobile8                                                    3.77
3                                                                 3.21
Sampoerna Telekomunikasi Indonesia             0.41

Smart Telecom                                               0.5
Bakrie Telecom                                              4.46
Telkom                                                         6.69

Notable highlights of the Indonesia Mobile Forecast include:

  • Indonesia continues to be the most profitable market in East Asia. It is forecasted that average EBITDA margins in Indonesia at 63.7% in 2010. Telkomsel, in particular, will continue to be one of the most profitable wireless operators in the world with an EBITDA margin of 68.2%.
  • The wireless penetration level in Indonesia is steadily increasing. It will increase from the projected 50.9% in 2008 to 62.4% in 2010. The number of total subscribers will increase from 115.8 million to 146.2 million from 2008 - 2010.
  • Although the total subscriber base will continue to grow, Telkomsel, the largest operator in the country, will be losing its market share to competitors. According to the forecast that the market share (by subscribers) of Telkomsel will decrease from the projected 50.4% in 2008 to 47.9% in 2010.

   

Telkom plans to reduce its workforce (Kenya)

  • August 18th, 2008
  • 1:57 pm

According to a media report, Telkom Kenya has angered unions over plans to lay off more workers. Company said that it will reduce its workforce by between 300 and 500 in the coming months. The reduction will be made via voluntary redundancies. However, Unions are protesting against the move which they claim goes against an agreement made when Telkom axed 14,000 workers as part of a major restructuring prior to its part-privatisation.

Telkom in 5 year contract with Absa (South Africa)

  • August 6th, 2008
  • 6:39 am

Telkom (South Africa fixed line operator) wins the contract to supply the local banking group Absa with communications services. According to a report, this is a five-year deal in which Absa’s wide area network will do up. 2,548 sites will be covered, including branches, automated cash machines and central data centres.

MTN plans R7,1bn in capital expenditure (South Africa)

  • July 29th, 2008
  • 6:40 am

To increase the network capacity and coverage MTN is planning to spend R7, 1bn this year. Comparing the South African operations last year the spending is roughly double the amount invested. The plans centre on laying fibreoptic cables in urban areas of Gauteng and laying another 5000km of lines to create a national backbone. That will end its reliance on leasing lines from Telkom for its network backbone.

Tim Lowry (MTN, South Africa,MD) said it would lay the cables in conjunction with another operator to save them both money and minimise the disruption to traffic as roads are dug up. “We are building strong capacity, which will allow us to do multiple things in the future,” Lowry said. The capacity needed to carry voice calls was very predictable, he added, but when data transmissions were involved far more capacity was needed.

Telkom slashes long-distance tariffs (Indonesia)

  • April 8th, 2008
  • 2:17 pm

A company official has revealed that Telkom has lowered its long-distance tariffs by up to 46%. The decrease follows the government’s move to reduce the cost-based interconnection fees which companies are allowed to charge one another by up to 55% from 1 April. ‘The cut applies to long-distance calls from fixed line telephones to both fixed line and cellular phones,’ said Eddy Kurnia, vice president for public and marketing communication at the dominant Indonesian telco. Kurnia added that the tariffs for local calls are unchanged.

   

 

 

 

KPPU widens the net in mobile probe (Indonesia)

  • December 19th, 2007
  • 6:52 am

Indonesia’s Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) has announced it is widening its probe into alleged price-fixing of SMS messages by eight of the country’s mobile operators, The Jakarta Post reports. In a statement the body said it had found evidence, albeit preliminary, of a ‘cartel-like’ arrangement between the companies involved. ‘From the preliminary evidence, we have discovered that there’s a kind of agreement between the mobile cellular companies to fix the prices of text messages at between IDR250 (about USD0.027) and IDR350,’ KPPU chairman Muhammad Iqbal said Monday. He went on to say it would take about 60 working days for the KPPU to finally make its adjudication on the case. The eight companies allegedly involved are Bakrie Telecom, Indosat, Telkomsel, Telkom, Excelcomindo, Hutchinson CP Telecommunications (HCPT), Mobile-8 Telecom and Smart Telecom.

   

 

Telkom and others awarded pay-TV concessions (South Africa)

  • September 13th, 2007
  • 1:56 pm

Telkom South Africa has been awarded a pay-TV licence by the country’s communications regulator ICASA. Three other firms – Hosken Consolidated Investments, Walking On Water and OnDigital – were also granted concessions; 18 companies had originally applied for licences. Telkom says its media division expects to launch commercial pay-TV services within 12-18 months, Telecompaper reports.