Indosat to install 100 hotspots

Indosat to install 100 hotspots

YOGYAKARTA: In its bid to provide Internet users with much higher
access speeds, PT Indosat Mega Media (or Indosat M2), which
provides Internet and multimedia services, has planned to install
some 100 hotspots throughout the country this year alone.

Indosat M2 sales and marketing director Dede Rusnandar
revealed the company's plans here over the weekend, during the
launch of the first hotspot that the company has built in
Yogyakarta.

"We currently have about 30 hotspots across Indonesia. Some
100 to 150 will be added every year in public places, including
hotels and education institutions," Dede told The Jakarta Post on
the sidelines of the launch.

Of the 30 hotspots, most are in Jakarta. The rest are in
Bandung, Yogyakarta, Semarang, Surabaya, Bali, Batam, Medan,
Makasar, Balikpapan, and Manado. Indosat M2 first introduced the
facility in August last year.

Hotspots are wireless, broadband, Internet facilities using
WiFi or wireless fidelity technology, which can provide high-
speed Internet access of up to 11 megabytes per second (mbps).

This compares favorably with dial-up Internet connections,
which mostly have a speed of only about 50 kilobytes per second
(kbps).

"Within an area with the WiFi facility, users of a notebook or
PDA that has a WiFi card can enjoy extremely high-speed Internet
access," said Dede, adding that the main objective in providing
the facility was to offer customers wireless, high-speed Internet
access any time, anywhere. --JP