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To: Sam Lee who wrote (1065)	3/29/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Respond to of 7703

Sam, I wish I knew those answers and so does the street, details were sparce. I'm hoping for some type of release that will detail part or all of that. INDOSAT is the biggie for wireless, Telekom has the wires. INDOSAT has wires as well but wireless is needed to hop all the islands. Byron.

To: Sam Lee who wrote (1065)	3/29/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: Rick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7703

Sam - I am pretty sure that DGIV is the only JV partner with Indosat in this realm. FYI - here is BG info on Indosat: (excerpt) PT Indonesian Satellite Corporation (Indosat) announced yesterday a 22 percent increase in its consolidated net income for 1997 to Rp 636.5 billion (US$ 136.9 million) from Rp 521.7 billion the previous year despite the country's monetary crisis. Company president Tjahjono Soerjodibroto contributed the increase to the strong growth in telephone traffic and high speed leased lines. The company's earnings per share were Rp 6,146 or $ 1.30 per American Depository Share, he said. ''This is the best that we can do with this recent monetary turmoil,'' Tjahjono said. Indosat's international telephone traffic increased to 683.9 million minutes last year from 576.6 million minutes in 1996. The company also recorded strong growth in high speed leased line service of 572 lines and telecast service last year, up 110,400 minutes over the previous year. ''Although the 1997 economy was in turmoil, the international traffic pattern appears not to be affected,'' Tjahjono said. Indosat's vice president for marketing said its market share loss to competitors appeared to be slowing down. ''Our average market share from fixed lines in 1997 was 89.3 percent compared to 91.2 percent in 1996,'' Bambang said. The company said its consolidated operating revenue last year increased to Rp 1.45 trillion from Rp 1.22 trillion in 1996. It contributed the increase to a 15.4 percent increase in revenue from international telephone calls and a 56 percent increase in other telecommunications services revenue, including Rp 34.5 billion in revenue from its subsidiary Sisindosat. The growth of telephone call revenue was lower than traffic growth due to the impact of accounting rate reductions and lower collection rates for Batam and Singapore border traffic and the sharp depreciation of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar, it said. Indosat maintained an average accounting rate reduction of about 7 percent which affected only 1.4 percent of Indosat revenue from telephone calls, the company said. The company said its 1997 consolidated operational expenses were Rp 763.5 billion, up 19.9 percent from 1996. It said compensation payments to state-owned PT Telkom increased by 8.2 percent. The company's vice president of finance and administration, Herman Simandjuntak, said general and administration, other costs of telecommunications and maintenance expenses, increased last year, reflecting the rise in the number of circuits used and the collapse of the rupiah. Personnel expenses increased due to a personnel optimization plan which would increase personnel productivity by 5 percent in the future, he said. ''We have successfully maintained and controlled our revenue growth to be more than our expenses growth for Indosat which enables us to achieve an operational margin of about 45 to 50 percent for the full year of 1997,'' he said.

To: Sam Lee who wrote (1065)	3/29/1998 11:22:00 AM
From: Rick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7703

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. --------- 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. _________ 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.