iBasis’s Premium Voice service to be used by MTS Russia
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Russia’s largest mobile operator will use iBasis, a KPN affiliate Premium Voice service to complete international calls for its customers. Through this interconnection, MTS joins
more than 1,000 carrier customers from all segments of telecom that use iBasis for all or part of their international voice service.
The premium voice will provide MTS with very high quality worldwide voice termination through a single connection to the iBasis global network. The transfer of Caller Line Identifier (CLI) to mobile and fixed destinations is also guaranteed along with international roaming support worldwide.
Currently, Eastern Europe and Central Asia are rapidly growing region for mobile telecommunications services and with mobile service penetration exceeding 125% and annual growth rate of 14.5 percent, Russia is the fourth largest mobile telecommunications market in the world. The interconnection with iBasis will strengthen Russia’s position in the year to come.
At present, MTS is a leading provider of mobile communications in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus and has 96 million mobile customers and annual revenue of $10 billion.
INDONESIA: Telkomsel off mark first in offering 3G service
Jakarta — PT Telkomsel on Thursday officially began offering Indonesia’s first high-speed wireless service for mobile phones, following a successful trial operation in August.
The third-generation, or 3G, service allows users to download video clips and surf the Internet on their mobile phones at high speed. Currently, the service is only available in Jakarta.
Bambang Riadhy Oemar, Telkomsel’s director for planning and development, said 3G service was now available in several main areas of the capital: Cawang, Jl. Gatot Subroto, Kuningan, Senayan, Tomang, Taman Anggrek mall, Jl. Sudirman, Casablanca, Jl. Thamrin, Menteng, the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, Monas, Gambir, Harmoni and around the Presidential Palace on Jl. Merdeka Utara.
“We have built 300 base transceiver stations in Jakarta to provide 3G service,” he said following 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 Rp 3 trillion (about US$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.
The company was expecting only about 10,000 people to sign up for 3G during the one-month trial, he said. “We are seeing stronger demand.”
Telkomsel is one of five companies that won licenses to operate third-generation mobile telecommunications services in Indonesia.
In addition to Telkomsel, the government also awarded 3G service operating rights to PT Indosat, PT Excelcomindo Pratama, PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler and PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications.
All of the companies are required eventually to provide 3G service to at least 10 percent of their coverage capacity in at least two provinces. To be able to begin commercial operations, they must conduct trial operations supervised by the government.
PT Excelcomindo Pratama said Thursday it had passed the trial operation and received clearance to offer 3G in Greater Jakarta, Bandung, Batam, Denpasar, Surabaya and Medan.
Excelcomindo hopes to begin providing the service by the end of the year. “By the end of October there will be about 1,000 transceiver stations to support the new service in Greater Jakarta,” said the company’s head of corporate communications, Ventura Elisawati.
Indosat, Nutrindo and Hutchison are still preparing their trial operations and plan to start offering 3G service sometime next year.
Source- http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu
Technorati : 3G, Indonesia, Mobile, Telkomsel
Ice Rocket : 3G, Indonesia, Mobile, Telkomsel
