PT Telkom targets 1.2m Internet users

PT Telkom targets 1.2m Internet users

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

State-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom relaunched on
Wednesday its PlasaCom portal service and expects to reach 1.2
million users this year.

Head of Telkom multimedia division Adeng Achmad said that the
service would benefit Internet users since it provided more
specific facilities and easy access.

"Telkom has its own telecommunications infrastructure and
network across the country so it is easy to deal with the
Internet traffic," Adeng said.

The company launched PlasaCom in 1997 with limited users in
education and general communication services.

It said that PlasaCom gained 960,000 e-mail users and
delivered 30.3 million messages in March this year.

The PlasaCom portal service is a business unit of the Telkom
multimedia division which supports Telkom's Internet access
service called TelkomNet Instan by providing content services.
The company said it reaped 2 million hours of Internet access
every month.

Telkom targets the corporate sector, professionals and young
people as users of its portal service. It said that PlasaCom
services include general communications services such as e-mail,
chatting, webforum, and also specific services such as online
advertising, financial information and transactions on the
Jakarta Stock Exchange, e-commerce, and tourism information.

"The public should be encouraged to use the Internet. We will
only charge the users for the specific services they use," Adeng
said.