PT Excelcomindo Pratama builds fiber optic network<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): PT Excelcomindo Pratama, a private global system
\nfor mobile (GSM) operator, is installing a 2,000-kilometer fiber
\noptic network along railway lines in Java belonging to state
\nrailway firm Perumka.<\/p>\n
Excelcomindo president Julius S. Djohan said Wednesday that
\nthe US$100 million project would be completed before the end of
\nthis year.<\/p>\n
He said that a consortium of Fujitsu and Tomen of Japan and
\ndomestic firm PT Tripatra were supplying equipment, such as radio
\ntransmission devices, and developing the project.<\/p>\n
Under the government's regulations in the Fundamental
\nTechnical Plan, which is amended annually by the Ministry of
\nTourism, Post and Telecommunications, private telecommunications
\nfirms may install their own networks but they cannot lease their
\ninfrastructure to other parties. This is designed to protect the
\nstate telecommunications firm PT Telkom.<\/p>\n
Julius said the 2,000-kilometer fiber optic network, to link
\nJakarta and Surabaya, East Java, would support the company's
\nexisting microwave networks.<\/p>\n
Excelcomindo, which goes by the GSM-XL brand, now has 25,000
\nusers. "We expect to have 150,000 users by 1997," Julius said.<\/p>\n
The company is the youngest of the country's three GSM
\noperators. GSM, the most recent system to be introduced
\ndomestically, is also operated by PT Telkomsel and PT Satelindo.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Swedish telecommunications group LM Ericsson AB
\nwill launch next March its newest product, the GF-788, claimed to
\nbe among the smallest GSM handsets.<\/p>\n
Franky Prionggo, a manager of PT Ericsson Indonesia, the
\nmarketing arm of the Ericsson group, said Wednesday that the
\ndimensions of the new terminal were 160mm in height, 50mm in
\nwidth and 24mm in length and that its weight was just 125 grams,
\nincluding the battery.<\/p>\n
Ericsson now offers the popular GF-388, which is 130mm tall,
\n49mm wide, 23mm in length and 175 grams in weight. The company
\nrecently introduced the AF-738, one of the smallest analog
\nhandsets.<\/p>\n
The cellular terminal market in Indonesia is controlled by
\nMotorola, Nokia and Ericsson. (icn)<\/p>",
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