Local IT-based firms secure partnerships
Local IT-based firms secure partnerships
JAKARTA (JP): Some local telecoms and IT-based companies have
secured strategic alliances with their foreign counterparts
during the Indonesian International Telecommunications, Media &
Information Technology (IITELMIT) 2000 show, which ended on
Saturday.
Among the companies that used the event to sign their new
business deals is PT CyberCity Indonesia, a subsidiary of
Singapore-based L&M Group Investments Ltd, which signed an
agreement with the U.S.-based telecoms infrastructure provider
Lucent Technologies on Thursday.
CyberCity Indonesia's president Edward Soerjadjaja said that
under the agreement, Lucent would design, construct and operate a
telecommunications network for his company's property project
called CyberCity in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta.
He said CyberCity was not an ordinary residence and business
estate since it would be fully equipped with infrastructures for
both voice and data communications through fixed and wireless
telephone and Internet.
"At the first stage, we will develop web portals and a
multimedia academy on a 10 hectare plot," Edward said, adding
that the company had allocated at least US$50 million as initial
investment.
The holding company of several Internet-based firms, PT Tele
Nusa Dunia (TND), has also made use of the IITELMIT event to
advertise its new deals with foreign partners, the Netherlands-
based Hollandse Telecommunicatie Maatschappij (HTM) and
Australian OnQ, to form two separate joint ventures.
TND's director Willem Ouwens said the two newly founded joint
ventures are PT HTM Indonesia and PT ONQ Indonesia.
PT HTM Indonesia, which is equally owned by TND and HTM will
provide network installation services.
Ouwens said that among the potential clients HTM Indonesia
expected to target were PT Telkom's KSO partners, mobile phone
operators and other telecoms and IT-based companies.
"Telecoms operators are already running out of lines, they
need to expand their capacities," he said.
The other new joint venture, OnQ Indonesia, is 40 percent
owned by TND and 60 percent by OnQ, Ouwens said.
He said OnQ Indonesia would mainly provide telecommunication
applications for the banking industry and cellular
communications.
As part of the two new joint ventures, TND already has major
ownership of about five Internet-based firms, including portal
operator PT Portal Integrasi Indonesia and application developer
PT SmartWeb Indonesia.
Another company that announced its business alliance at
IITELMIT was giant computer manufacturer Compaq.
Compaq struck a deal with state-owned listed telecoms company
PT Telkom for the establishment of an Internet development
project called Electronic Mega Mall.
It said the project was developed by Telkom's multimedia
division by utilizing Compaq's server infrastructures.
Compaq said the Electronic Mega Mall project was designed to
support the development of e-commerce portal Plasa.com as well as
Telkom's latest Internet service provider TELKOMnet Instant.
Additionally, mobile telephone operator Satelindo announced
its alliance with computer applications provider SAP Asia to
develop an e-business platform for the company's business
operation. (cst)