IndosatNet spreads Internet service

IndosatNet spreads Internet service

JAKARTA (JP): IndosatNet, owned by state telecommunication
company Indosat, has launched its Internet service in Medan,
Batam, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya and Denpasar.

Zuraida Boerhanuddin, the general manager of Indosat's
business development II division, said yesterday that IndosatNet
planned to launch its service in other cities next year.

"IndosatNet first launched its service in Jakarta in April,"
she said after the signing of cooperation agreements with Asia's
leading Internet service provider AUNET, the Indonesian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, and the Center for Information
Development Studies (CIDES).

AUNET would provide "premium corporate access" to IndosatNet's
domestic corporate customers so they could access their branches
worldwide via Internet, she said.

The chamber of commerce and CIDES would open homepages on
IndosatNet, giving ready access to their information, she said.

Zuraida said IndosatNet had 3,000 individual subscribers and
10 corporate subscribers.

Zuraida said IndosatNet had launched new services, Internet
Network Provider (INP) and Indosat Internet Exchange (IIX), for
local Internet service providers.

IndosatNet's INP service, she said, provided local Internet
service providers cheap connections to the Internet, while its
IIX service provided local users easier access.

She said six of the 30 local Internet service providers were
planning to use IndosatNet's INP service. They were IptekNet,
LinkNet, MediaNet, WasantaraNet, BumiNet and PasifikNet.

IndosatNet held a one-day seminar on Internet yesterday at
Indosat's headquarters. It opened a five-day Internet exhibition
on Monday at the same venue. (jsk)