FYI - this is also one other telecom player (state regulated..) called Inti
The only JV's that I see for Indosat..(in public domain)
are (excerpts):
Telkom and Indosat operate DCS-1800. PT Telkom and Indosat agreed to set up two joint venture companies which will operate PHs-based and DCS-1800-based PCN/PCS cellular system.
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there is another player....
Titan Corp., a California based company, will share in the development of hardware and software
technology as a member of a consortium supplying the ground segment for a huge interactive
multimedia satellite network to be launched in 1999. About four million subscribers in several
Southeast Asian countries are expected to receive telephone, fax, Internet access and television
services from the network, which is called the Multi Media Asia Satellite Telecommunications
System, or M2A. According to Titan Corp., it will share in the initial-phase award for development
activities and will receive royalties and payments for chips it supplies to be used in the build-out of
the system. The contract's initial phase, valued at $ 105 million, was awarded to Alcatel Alsthom's
(ALA) Alcatel Telspace unit by PT Multi Media Asia Indonesia. Titan is currently manufacturing
Xpress satellite communication terminals to Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSNRY) for installation
throughout Indonesia. PT Multi Media Asia Indonesia is a joint venture between Pasifik Satelit
Nusantara and Indosat.
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The Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) is moving toward creating a single telecom
entity to participate in global telecom alliances.
To this end, the member countries have set up Acasia Communications (Acasia) to act as a single
contact point for global telecom alliances operating in South East Asia. Azam Latiff, Telekom
Malaysia's general manager of global communications, told Exchange that Acasia's main focus is to
develop and manage corporate telecom services for its member partners.
Latiff told the Global and Regional Alliances in Telecommunications conference in Singapore that the
success of the Asean model at the government level had spurred member countries to initiate other
industry-specific partnership projects within the region and telecommunications was a natural
evolution.
Acasia is the business and marketing arm of Asean Telecom Holdings, an equity joint venture
between Indonesia's PT Indosat, Singapore Telecom, Telekom Malaysia, the Communications
Authority of Thailand, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and Jabatan Telekom
Brunei. |
