NTT eyes RI's phone market

NTT eyes RI's phone market

JAKARTA (JP): The Japanese telecommunications firm, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), plans to enter Indonesia's lucrative mobile phone market with its personal handy-phone system (PHS).

NTT's executive vice president Yutaka Hayashi said here yesterday that his company was waiting for government approval of the system.

The personal handy-phone, developed by the Japanese telecommunication industry, is a cheaper type of mobile cellular telephone. The service in Japan began last July. In addition to NTT, there are two other operators of the system in Japan, DDI and Astel.

Hayashi said that Indonesia demonstrated the system in Bandung, West Java, last August. (icn)