Exhibition to promote CDMA kicks off<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Taking some time to visit a mobile technology exhibition during
\nan office break was exciting for 24-year-old Danny, who was
\nplanning to get a new cellphone.<\/p>\n
\"I'm thinking of getting another CDMA mobile phone. I want to
\nknow which producer offers the best price and which provider
\ngives the best service,\" said Danny, an account executive in a
\nmedia firm.<\/p>\n
Danny was one of thousands of visitors seen on Wednesday at
\nthe first day of the 2005 Indonesia Code Division Multiple Access
\n(CDMA) Exhibition at the Jakarta Convention Center.<\/p>\n
Around 50 CDMA mobile handset manufacturers and
\ntelecommunication providers and associations are taking part in
\nthe three-day event that showcases the latest developments in the
\ntechnology.<\/p>\n
Public relation officer Novelita of PT Tri Warna, the
\norganizer of the exhibition, said the event was aimed at
\ninforming and educating people about the technology, which
\noperates at a lower frequency than the Global System for Mobile
\nCommunication (GSM).<\/p>\n
\"Many people haven't realized the advantages of CDMA
\ntechnology, which is growing more popular in business entities,\"
\nsaid Novelita.<\/p>\n
Fixed-wireless services, which uses CDMA technology, is a
\nphone service with limited cellular mobility in a designated area
\nthat was first introduced to Indonesia two years ago.<\/p>\n
The service offers rates almost equivalent to the rates of
\nfixed-line services, and is much cheaper than GSM rates.<\/p>\n
Fixed wireless began gaining ground in the industry last year,
\nthanks in part to aggressive sales campaigns by operators -- free
\ncalls and free short message services during specific hours and
\ndays, which moved GSM operators to cut their rates and come up
\nwith their own attractive packages.<\/p>\n
Operators of CDMA-based phone services include Telkom's Flexi,
\nPT Bakrie Telecom with its Esia service, Fren from Mobile-8, PT
\nIndosat with StarOne and Mandara Selular Indonesia with Neo_N.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Novelita said that her company, together with
\nTelkom Flexi, is targeting about 5,000 to 15,000 people per day
\nto visit the exhibition, which is sponsored by Telkom, Indosat,
\nQualcomm, Samsung, Ericsson, Motorola, Huawei and Nokia.<\/p>\n
Telkom Flexi's head of fixed wireless network division, Dian
\nRahmawan, said that his company expected the number of Telkom
\nFlexi subscribers to increase to around four million from 1.43
\nmillion as of the end of last year.<\/p>\n
\"As of the first quarter of this year the number had already
\nreached 2.55 million,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Danny however, complained that the exhibition did not involve
\nall telecommunications providers. \"I was hoping to see other CDMA
\nproviders, such as Mobile-8 and Esia, so that I could make
\ncomparisons,\" he said. (001)<\/p>",
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