NEC Nusantara receives big telephone contract

NEC Nusantara receives big telephone contract

JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia
(Telkom) has given the Japan-Indonesia joint venture PT NEC
Nusantara Communications an order to build telephone exchanges
with a combined capacity of 1.5 million lines.

The installation must be completed within the ongoing sixth
Five-Year Development Plan (1994-1999) period, Antara reported
yesterday, quoting a Telkom executive.

Telkom's director of operations, Dadad Kustiwa, did not
divulge the contract value.

NEC Nusantara Communications runs a newly opened plant in
Cikarang, West Java, which manufactures telephone switching units
with a capacity that Telkom considers adequate, Dadad said.

During the next five years, Telkom, in cooperation with
private companies, plans to install telephone exchanges with a
total capacity of five million line units throughout the country.

NEC Nusantara Communications is a joint venture between
Japan's giant Nippon Electric Company and two Indonesian
partners, PT Humpuss and PT Elektro Nusantara.

After having installed 350,000 telephone connections in recent
years, the company is now in the process of installing another
444,100 units and building a smaller telephone exchange with a
capacity of 40,000 lines.

Two other manufacturers in the Indonesian switching industry
are PT Inti (capacity 400,000 connections a year) and PT
Elektrindo Nusantara, with a smaller capacity.(17)