Telkom installs facilities

Telkom installs facilities

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned PT Telkom has installed a variety of
telecommunications networks and facilities to support the 19th
SEA Games, which starts on Oct. 11 and ends on Oct. 19.

Company director, Dadad Kustiwa, said yesterday that Telkom
had not allocated a particular sum or targeted additional income
from providing the facilities.

"We have just increased the capacity of existing networks. We
are not looking for any profit from the event," Kustiwa said
after inspecting some of the installed facilities at the Senayan
sports complex yesterday.

He said that the facilities were installed in close
cooperation with other telecommunications companies, including PT
Indosat, PT Satelindo and PT Lintasarta.

Dadad said that the telecommunications facilities consisted of
broadcasting transmission services for television and radio
stations, modulation networks for competition data traffic and
public services like telecommunications kiosks, pay phones and
facsimiles.

Telkom has prepared six telecommunications kiosks. Each kiosk
has 31 telephone lines, 10 facsimile lines, one telex line, one
pay phone line, and 13 other lines for coordinating affairs.

The company has also set up service points and other smaller
outlets at various locations around Senayan.

A total of 377 pay phone lines have been installed, consisting
of 113 coin phones, 94 magnetic-card phones, 127 chip-card phones
and 43 credit-card phones.

For communication data, Telkom has established 155 lines,
including 10 lines for access servers, 34 lines for incoming only
and 111 lines for operator utilities.

The company has also installed facilities for print and
broadcasting media.

For overseas broadcasters there are 75 leased circuit channels
(65 lines for telecast and 10 for radio), 12 facsimile lines and
31 lines for telecast. Local broadcasters will be able to use 93
leased circuit channels, one facsimile line and 24 lines for
telecast.

Telkom, which is deploying 250 personnel to support its SEA
Games operations, has installed seven telephone lines for foreign
print media and seven lines and two leased channels for local
print media.

Dadad said that Telkom had contributed about Rp 4.2 billion
(US$1.07 million) from telephone subscribers for the SEA Games
consortium as part of its sponsorship deal. (icn)