Telkom enjoys prosperous '94

Telkom enjoys prosperous '94

JAKARTA (JP): The East Jakarta telecommunication office
announced yesterday that its revenues reached Rp 262.5 billion
(US$119 million) for the January-November period, exceeding the
original target of Rp 248 billion by six percent.

The office chief, I Nyoman Punia W.H., told a press conference
that the higher-than-expected revenues were made possible by a
marketing team that succeeded in selling 75,641 telephone lines,
up from the sales target of 70,000 lines.

Punia, however, said that out of the 75,641 lines, only 57,115
were in operation. He added that the office has built another 19
telephone exchanges with total capacity of 93,000 telephone
lines.

The completion of the 19 telephone exchanges will raise the
number of such exchanges from 15 with the total capacity of
215,191 telephone lines to 34 with 308,191 lines.

"The number of telephone lines in East Jakarta account for
13.5 percent of the total lines in operation all over the
country," Punia said.

During the press conference, Punia added that the number of
public card-telephones (TUK) and public coin-telephones (TUC)
installed this year reached, respectively, 1,492 and 1,049. By
comparison the number of TUKs and TUCs installed last year
reached 1,492 and 4,039.

However, the office's revenues from the public telephones only
reached Rp 5.9 billion, or 15.7 percent below the original target
of Rp 7 billion.

He also said that as of November, the office succeeded in
building 83 public telecommunication houses, 13 more than
originally planned.

"The office's revenues from wartels as of November were Rp 11
billion, higher than the original target of only Rp 8.5 billion.
We project that by the end of this year we will acquire one
billion rupiah more from wartels," Punia said.

Punia said that in 1995 the office projected sales of 87,000
telephone lines with total revenues of Rp 337 billion.

"But our real target is to reach a moment when a customer can
receive the line shortly after he or she pays the installation
fees," he said. (mas)