Tangerang gets new phones

Tangerang gets new phones

JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned domestic telecommunication
company, PT Telkom, will offer more than 4,000 new telephone
lines in Tangerang area, West Java, during a promotion period
between July 5 and July 22.

Djasman Sinaga, the spokesman for the Jakarta office of PT
Telkom, told reporters yesterday that the company and the
privately-run Konsorsium Telekomindo Intertel had jointly
installed the 4,145 new lines.

Djasman said that PT Telkom planned to establish 5 million new
lines during the sixth Five Year Development Plan (Pelita VI), of
which 490,000 will jointly be developed with private investors in
highly developed urban areas like Jakarta, Tangerang, Bandung and
Surabaya. (09)