Multi to provide telecoms services

Multi to provide telecoms services

JAKARTA (JP): PT Multi Eka Karma, a company controlled by the
Army, signed here yesterday an agreement with GN Comtext of
Britain to serve value-added telecommunications services in
Indonesia.

Multi's director, Teddy Mappakaya, said the value-added
services would include store and forward telex and facsimile
facilities.

"The service will provide facsimile and telex delivery cheaper
than the normal system as we use our own network supplied by GN
Comtext," he said.

He said that to provide the new service, Multi Eka Karma would
set up a new firm called PT Global NusaCaraka Ekakarma to
cooperate with GN Comtext.

"We expect the new service will be available within the next
couple of months," he said.

Storing and forwarding telex and facsimile facilities will
allow users to deliver messages directly form computers to dozens
of numbers via access nodes.

A similar service is now also provided by the state-owned PT
Telkom and PT Indosat and a private firm.

Multi Eka Karma is controlled by the Soedirman foundation of
the Ministry of Defense and Security. The company has eight
subsidiaries with business lines of telecommunications; media and
publication; data and information; engineering and construction;
diamonds and jewelry; asphalt; oil and gas, and infrastructure.

GN Comtext, a subsidiary of GN Great Nordic of Denmark, is one
of the leading companies in value-added message services. The
company operates in 45 nations. (icn)