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)