TelkomNet users increase by 80%

TelkomNet users increase by 80%

JAKARTA: State-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom
announced on Thursday that the users of its Internet service
provider (ISP) TelkomNet Instan increased by up to 80 percent in
the first semester of this year.

TelkomNet users now total 366,450 in the period, from around
190,000 in the first semester of last year, with the total
duration of usage increasing from 1.2 million hours to two
million hours.

Marketing general manager of Telkom's Multimedia Division
Bambang Lusmiadi said the increase in the number of users was due
to the company's ability to expand its network to cover the whole
of Java, Bali and Sumatra.

Telkom's regional offices had also actively promoted the
service, he said,

TelkomNet now dominates the country's ISP retail market, with
a market share amounting to 80 percent, according to Bambang.

TelkomNet is planning to boost the number of its users to
700,000 next year by expanding its network to cover the entire
area of Kalimantan, Sulawesi and West and East Nusatenggara. --JP