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        "id": 1038192,
        "msgid": "cellular-phones-hit-bengkulu-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-12-02 00:00:00",
        "title": "Cellular phones hit Bengkulu",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Cellular phones hit Bengkulu JAKARTA (JP): Global system of mobile telecommunications (GSM) operator PT Telkomsel launched its service in Bengkulu, southern Sumatra, on Saturday. Telkomsel president Koesmarihati Sugondo said in Bengkulu that her company had installed three base-transceiver stations (BTS) in Bengkulu, Pagar Dewa and Curup to cover the province's 1.4 million people. She said about 300 people in Bengkulu were waiting to subscribe to Telkomsel's GSM.",
        "content": "<p>Cellular phones hit Bengkulu<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Global system of mobile telecommunications (GSM)<br>\noperator PT Telkomsel launched its service in Bengkulu, southern<br>\nSumatra, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Telkomsel president Koesmarihati Sugondo said in Bengkulu that<br>\nher company had installed three base-transceiver stations (BTS)<br>\nin Bengkulu, Pagar Dewa and Curup to cover the province's 1.4<br>\nmillion people.<\/p>\n<p>She said about 300 people in Bengkulu were waiting to<br>\nsubscribe to Telkomsel's GSM.<\/p>\n<p>Telkomsel, incorporated in 1995, has 168,000 subscribers<br>\nnationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\"Now we operate in 23 of the country's 27 provinces. Telkomsel<br>\nhas installed BTS in 364 locations and 14 mobile switching<br>\ncenters nationwide,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>Koesmarihati said Telkomsel expected to serve all 27 provinces<br>\nby the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku, Central and Southeast Sulawesi<br>\nstill await the service.<\/p>\n<p>Another GSM operator, Satelindo, which serves West Java,<br>\nCentral Java, East Java and East Kalimantan plans to enter Irian<br>\nJaya, South Sulawesi and Palembang by the end of 1996.<\/p>\n<p>PT Satelindo presented an appreciation award to its 200,000th<br>\nsubscriber over the weekend. (icn)<\/p>",
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