Ericsson wins RI deal

Ericsson wins RI deal

STOCKHOLM (Reuter): Swedish telecoms group LM Ericsson AB
said yesterday it had won a contract from Indonesian wireless
data operator, PT Massinfo Nusantara, to supply and install a
Mobitex communications network.

No financial details were released.

Ericsson said in a statement that in the first phase of the
contract the network would cover the greater Jakarta metropolitan
area with a total capacity of 25,000 subscribers.

The first network expansion will cover Surabaya-East Java.

"Looking at the demand for wireless data communications in
Indonesia, we are expecting to expand our network to cover all
the major cities within five years," an Ericsson spokesman said
in the statement.

The spokesman said some applications would be transferred to
the network immediately, such as E-mail, short data transfer and
telemetrics.

The network would go commercial at the end of this year under
the proposed timetable.

Ericsson said its Mobitex system was leading technology for
mobile data communication and one of the fastest growing segments
in the field of mobile communications.