Digital system coming on stream in Indonesia<\/p>\n
BATAM ISLAND, Riau (JP): The rapid development of digital
\ncellular telecommunications in Indonesia is expected to edge out
\nthe increasingly out-dated analog system.<\/p>\n
\"The utilization of the analog system in cellular radio
\ntelecommunications services in Indonesia will be over and the
\ncountry will continue to develop the digital system,\" State
\nMinister of Research and technology B. J. Habibie said after
\ninaugurating a project for the Global System for Mobile
\nCommunications (GSM) cellular telecommunications here over the
\nweekend.<\/p>\n
The project, valued at Rp 12 billion (US$5.52 million), has
\nbeen established by the state-owned domestic telecommunications
\ncompany PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) in Batam and Bintan
\nislands, Riau.<\/p>\n
Habibie said that GSM, one of the main leaders in digital
\ncellular mobile telephone systems in the world, has global
\nnetwork access, and that the outstation is very simple when
\noperated internationally.<\/p>\n
\"The quality of GSM, which is derived from Europe, is better
\nthan the analog system,\" he said, adding that the digital system
\nwill be applied nationally.<\/p>\n
There are currently three analog modes operated in Indonesia,
\nincluding the advanced mobile phone system (AMPS-800) run by PT
\nElektrindo Nusantara in Jakarta, West Java and North Sumatra; by
\nPT Centralindo Pancasakti in Central and East Java; and by PT
\nTelekomindo Prima Bhakti in Bali, South Sulawesi and Kalimantan.
\nPT Rajasa Hasanah Perkasa runs Nordic mobile telephones (NMT-450)
\nin Jakarta and Bandung, West Java, while the other mode is
\nTelkom's total access communications system, whose utilization is
\ndecreasing.<\/p>\n
Precise<\/p>\n
Director General of Post and Telecommunications Djakaria
\nPurawidjaja said recently that the government has picked GSM as
\nthe precise mode for the development of digital cellular
\ntelecommunications in the country. There are two other digital
\ntechnologies in telecommunications, including the American
\nDigital Cellular (ADC) of the United States and Personal Digital
\nCellular (PDC) of Japan.<\/p>\n
Besides Telkom, its subsidiary PT Satelindo also operates GSM
\ntelecommunications. Another subsidiary of Telkom, PT Ratelindo,
\nruns fixed-cellular digital radio telephones in Jakarta and West
\nJava.<\/p>\n
Telkom's president Setyanto P. Santosa said that his company
\nwill establish another subsidiary next year to operate GSM
\ncellular telecommunications nationally.<\/p>\n
\"After our success in operating the GSM project in Riau, we
\nwill operate a similar service in several other parts of the
\ncountry,\" he said, adding that the new subsidiary will be set up
\nnext year.<\/p>\n
He said Telkom will likely cooperate with another state
\ncompany or private sector firms in establishing the subsidiary.
\n(icn)<\/p>",
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