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All Jakarta to be wi-fi by year end: Telkom

| Source: GOI
Publicly-listed telecommunication firm PT Telkom said June 15 it would connect all public places in Jakarta with wireless broadband by the end of this year.

"We expect all strategic locations in Jakarta to be covered by our hotspots with a bandwidth capacity of 1 Mbps by the end of 2008," general manager of Telkom Region II Adeng Ahmad said, adding that the ambitious program was named Jakarta Cyber City.

The wireless broadband hotspots will be located in 180 public places across the capital such as malls, cafes, museums, city gardens, hotels and office buildings, he said.

The first hotspot is located at the National Monument.
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