Indosat ready for Y2K

Indosat ready for Y2K

JAKARTA (JP): International telecommunications provider PT
Indosat assured its customers that the company was in compliance
with the Y2K computer bug and its services would continue
uninterrupted at the turn of the century, Djoko Prayitno, the
company's general manager, said on Thursday in Batam.

The company has been conducting a simulation experiment in
cooperation with other telecommunications companies from
Singapore and Malaysia to enable a continuing service, he said at
the Indosat Y2K Readiness seminar.

"We are sure that undersea telephone connections and the
satellite which connects 36 countries will perform properly," he
told Antara.

He added that the experiment, which was held with several
international companies, showed that Indosat's equipment met the
requirement.

The Y2K bug originated from a programming practice that used
only two digits to indicate the year. Noncompliant computers can
mistake 2000 for 1900 and breakdown at the start of the new year.
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