Mitsui's pager service here

Mitsui's pager service here

TOKYO (Reuter): Japanese trading firm Mitsui & Co Ltd said it would establish a joint venture with Indonesian telecommunications company PT Telekomindo Primabhakti to offer pager services in Indonesia.

The new venture, PT Buana Bintangbayu, will be capitalized at Rp 8 billion (US$3.4 million) and owned 25 percent by Mitsui and the rest by Telekomindo. They plan to invest 1.1 billion yen. The venture will start offering pager services in January, initially in Jakarta and two other cities, using Indonesia's communications satellite.

It aims to have 340,000 subscribers in 20 cities by 2004.