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        "id": 1212058,
        "msgid": "cellular-phone-price-likely-to-decline-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-08-26 00:00:00",
        "title": "Cellular phone price likely to decline",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Cellular phone price likely to decline JAKARTA (JP): The price of cellular phones will likely continue to decline on the world market over the next few years due to mass production and new innovations, an executive said. \"In Germany in 1990, terminal prices reached 4,500 marks (US$3,000 at the current rate).",
        "content": "<p>Cellular phone price likely to decline<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): The price of cellular phones will likely<br>\ncontinue to decline on the world market over the next few years<br>\ndue to mass production and new innovations, an executive said.<\/p>\n<p>\"In Germany in 1990, terminal prices reached 4,500 marks<br>\n(US$3,000 at the current rate). At present, they have dropped to<br>\n1,000 marks for low specification terminals and 2,000 marks for<br>\nhigh specification,\" the general manager for telecommunications<br>\nof Siemens Telecommunications of Germany, Hartmut Wilhelm Luecke,<br>\nsaid yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He said prices may decline by 1999 to less than 500 marks<br>\n($333) for terminals with low specifications and 1,000 marks for<br>\nthose with high specifications.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the decrease in prices will also happen in<br>\nIndonesia, even though there is no handset manufacturer in the<br>\ncountry.<\/p>\n<p>Siemens is the major supplier for the state-owned<br>\ntelecommunications operator PT Telkom and telecommunications<br>\nequipment producer PT Inti.<\/p>\n<p>Siemens, which produces cellular mobile phone handsets, is now<br>\nthe main supplier for PT Telkomsel, the operator of digital<br>\ncellular telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p>Handsets for mobile phones are still extremely expensive in<br>\nIndonesia -- generally 144.74 percent higher than those in other<br>\ncountries -- due to several taxes and duties. But fiercer<br>\ncompetition has caused the price to decline.<\/p>\n<p>Handsets for the global system for mobile communications sell<br>\nfor between Rp 4.34 million and Rp 1.95 million, depending on<br>\ntheir brand and type.<\/p>\n<p>Telecommunications executives in Indonesia have urged the<br>\ngovernment several times to abolish taxes and duties on handsets.<\/p>\n<p>They said that overseas handset manufacturers are reluctant to<br>\nestablish a join venture plant in Indonesia because the market is<br>\nstill considered too small.<\/p>\n<p>The government expects to install 600,000 cellular mobile<br>\ntelephone lines in addition to some five million fixed telephone<br>\nlines during the ongoing Sixth Five Year Development Plan. (icn)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/cellular-phone-price-likely-to-decline-1447893297",
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