Palapa users' meeting

JAKARTA (JP): Private telecommunications operator PT Satelindo will hold today a Palapa users' meeting show appreciation to its Palapa-C satellite leasing customers.

Company general manager of satellite operations, Kanaka Hidayat, said the meeting at the Bali Inter-continental hotel in Jimbaran, Bali, was also aimed at keeping the customers that use Palapa C1 and C2 satellites.

"We are looking for input and suggestions from the users to improve our services. Satellite competition in Asia is getting fiercer now," he said.

Satelindo also runs cellular and international telecommunications services and has about 60 companies leasing the two Palapa C satellites' transponders, he said.

He said that these companies included telecommunications and broadcasting companies leasing between one-sixteenth of a transponder to two transponders. (icn)