New public phones for South Jakarta

New public phones for South Jakarta

JAKARTA (JP): I Nyoman Wiryanata, the head of the South
Jakarta telecommunications firm, said the company will improve
services by installing alarms to reduce vandalism attempts.

Alarms installed to magnetic card phones would alert the
central exchange whenever there was a damaged phone, he said.

Wiryanata said thousands of the 7,976 public phones installed
in South Jakarta had been equipped with alarm devices.

South Jakarta mayor Pardjoko on Tuesday inaugurated the
operation of 125 public phone units in 25 shelters.

PT Telkom, the state-owned telecommunication company planned
to install another 75 shelters in South Jakarta, said .

PT Telkom earned around Rp 500 million a month from some
59,000 public phones installed in Jakarta. (04)