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.
Telkomsel rolls out 3G service
(Xinhua via NewsEdge)
Indonesia
‘s largest cellular phone operator Telkomsel has officially begun offering first high-speed wireless service for mobile phones, following a successful trial operation in August, local press reported. Currently, the service is only available in
Jakarta
, The Jakarta Post reported.
Bambang Riadhy Oemar, Telkomsel’s director for planning and development, said 3G service was now available in several main areas of the capital.
“We have built 300 base transceiver stations in
Jakarta
to provide 3G service,” he said after the launch of the service.
He said Telkomsel would soon expand coverage to other cities, including
Bandung
in West Java,
Surabaya
in East Java and
Medan
in North Sumatra.
Bambang said Telkomsel would increase the number of base transceiver stations to 600 by the end of this year to enable it to provide high-speed wireless service in these cities.
Telkomsel, he said, will invest about 3 trillion rupiah ($326 million) to increase the number of base transceiver stations to 3,000 within three years as it expands its 3G coverage.
As many as 60,000 customers have registered for the service since Telkomsel launched the trial operation last month, he said.
Telkomsel is one of five companies that won licenses to operate 3G services in
Indonesia
.
In addition to Telkomsel, the government also awarded 3G service operating rights to Indosat, Excelcomindo Pratama, Natrindo Telepon Seluler and Hutchison CP Telecommunications.
Source- http://www.telecomasia.net
Technorati : Indonesia, Mobile, Telkomsel
Ice Rocket : Indonesia, Mobile, Telkomsel
