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)