Telkom, Alcatel agree to push telecommuting

Telkom, Alcatel agree to push telecommuting

JAKARTA (JP): PT Alcatel Indonesia and PT Telkom Indonesia
have agreed to jointly promote telecommuting concepts to the
Indonesian community.

Under the agreement signed here early this week, the two
companies will provide complete-integrated satellite office-based
telecommuting solutions.

Alcatel president Mazen Hamadallah said potential customers
would be global companies, consultants, design and engineering
businesses, software houses, the media and other publishing
concerns and travel bureaus. Other potential customers would be
enterprises using on-line services like the banking industry.

Telecommuting systems allow business people to continue
working and communicating with their head office when they are
traveling.

"Supported by the latest computers and telecommunications
technology, telecommuting will enable professionals to work from
a distance, such as from home, while traveling or from other
areas outside their offices," he said.

Hamadallah said benefits of the project would include
increasing people's productivity by saving on commuting time to
the office, more efficient office space use, flexibility of time
used outside office hours and variety of work environments.

He said that under the agreement, which was signed on the
sidelines of Telkom's initiated Techno Pre-Eminence Conference
1999, Alcatel would provide all the telecommunications networking
equipment to the customers' premises and build the communication
link between head and branch offices.

He said the system and technology provided for the project by
Alcatel would include wireless access solutions, satellite
communication ground systems, enterprise and data solutions,
integrated voice over Internet protocol solutions and network
management systems. (cst)