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To: Rick who wrote (1029)	3/28/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Respond to of 7703

Rick, this gets bigger by the hour If anyone can understand your last post!HIGHLIGHTS* There's no guarantee either that a private Indonesian firm which owns equity in an overseas Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS) operator will obtain a license from the government to offer the services locally," he said. GMPCS services are classified as a basic telecommunications service, which under the country's telecommunications law, must be run by state-owned companies, he said. In addition, the involvement of private operators in the Indonesian telecommunications industry (Law no. 3/1989) will be permitted only on condition that such firms cooperate with the state-owned companies under a joint-operation, joint-venture or management agreement. There are two state-owned telecommunications firms, PT Telkom and PT Indosat. Among the PCS operators which have tied up with Indonesian partners are Globalstar,Iridium,Constellation Communications Incorporated(CCI), Intermediate Circular Orbit (ICO) and Global Communications. We are RUNNING with the BIG DOGS *"They don't have to obtain licenses if they are not going to provide or operate the service in Indonesia," he said.* Sources said officials at the Ministry of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications had encouraged GMPCS operators to consult first with Telkom or Indosat. But as Telkom and Indosat showed a tough stance, the GMPCS operators chose to tie up with local private firms first with the hope that their Indonesian partners would do the negotiations with Indosat or Telkom, the sources said. Indonesia will also adopt a regional satellite-network digital telecommunications systems Anyone care to guess what else DIGITCOM does? *GMPCS operators had approached Indonesia in a bid enter the country's potentially big market.*