Central Jakarta gets more phone lines

Central Jakarta gets more phone lines

JAKARTA (JP): The Central Jakarta branch office of the state-
owned Telkom telecommunication company has installed 11,634 new
telephone lines, 1,248 new lines for public phones and 35 new
lines for telex during the first nine months of this year.

Head of the office G.S. Sigit Pramono said in a statement
yesterday the installation of the new telephone lines accounted
for 75 percent of his office target of 15,500 lines.

The 1,248 new public phone lines consisted of 741 lines for
card telephones and 507 lines for coin telephones, he said.

The installation of the new card telephones in the first nine
months was almost 74 percent of the office target of 1,002 lines
but the number of the new coin telephones almost doubled the
office target of only 261 lines.

The new lines for telex was almost four times higher than the
office plan of nine lines, he said.

Sigit also revealed that his office has recorded a significant
achievement in reducing the number of public complaints against
certain problems in using communication services whose lines are
channeled to the Gambir, Cikini and Cempaka Putih
telecommunication central networks.

During the January-September period, the number of complaints
recorded at the three networks was 1.90 percent lower than those
recorded in the same period last year.

In a bid to further reduce the number of problems, the Central
Jakarta Telkom office installed an additional 1,057 lines using
overhead telephone cables and 764 lines using underground cables
in September, Sigit said.

Herman Susanto, spokesman to the branch office, said Central
Jakarta Telkom has also installed a total of 132,966
telecommunication lines for various purposes as of last month.
(bsr)