INDONESIA'S TELKOM OPERATES CDMA-BASED FIXED WIRELESS TELEPHONE
Asia Pulse
December 30, 2002 Monday 4:41 PM Eastern Time
JAKARTA, Dec 30
State telecommunications company PT Telkom (JSX:TLKM) has been operating a CDMA (code digital multiple access)-based fixed wireless telephones since last month in the three cities of Surabaya (East Java), Denpasar (Bali) and Balikpapan (East Kalimantan), a Telkom official said at the weekend.
"The development of the fixed wireless CDMA telephone is a realization of one of the T-21 Partnership project packages between Telkom and a world-class foreign telcom company," Telkom's Telephone Network Director Suryatin Setiawan said. CDMA-based fixed wireless technology enabled speed development of telephone networks because a long process as in underground cable installation such as in fixed telephone lines was no longer needed, he said.
Besides, investment cost could be reduced to only about US$200 per telephone unit as compared to cable telephone which reached some $700 per unit, Setiawan added.
According to Setiawan, the T-21 program was carried out in an effort to cut down the capital expenditure for the installation of a telephone unit. "On a large scale basis in the long run, the installation cost per unit is expected to reach a rate below 200 US dollars," he said.
The T-21 project worth $1.8 billion is divided into different packages whose development is expected to be completed between 2002 and 2005.
World class telcom companies such as Samsung, Ericsson consortium, Alcatel, Hyundai Corporation, Siemens consortium, Lucent consortium and Motorola are now taking part in the tender of the project.
The tender for the development of two packages of the project, namely public switch telephone network and fibre optics transmission link, is now still under process.
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