Indosat's Profit +56% On Year

(RTTNews) - PT Indosat, Indonesia's second-largest telecom company, saw net profits for the period of January to September in 2007 soar to 1.45 trillion rupiah, the company announced Thursday.
That figure marks a 56 percent increase over 927.17 billion in the same period in 2006. [more, tradingmarkets]

Telecom tangle for Singapore's Temasek

JAKARTA - The recent decision of Indonesia's anti-monopoly watchdog to sanction and fine Singapore state-owned investment vehicle Temasek Holdings for breaking local competition laws has sparked new foreign investor concerns and marks another setback for the Singaporean government’s regional investment drive. The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) on Monday ordered Temasek to sell off its stake in either of Indonesia's two largest mobile-phone companies - Telkomsel and [more, asiatimes]

Temasek case not to undermine investment

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Monday`s verdict by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) against Singaporean firm Temasek Holding has raised concerns that it would undermine the investment climate in Indonesia.Lee Theng Kiat, chief Executive of ST Telemedia, which is wholly owned by Temasek, said the KPPU`s ruling had raised a serious question on the implementation of the law and had at the same time also triggered the question whether foreign investors could feel secure about their investment in Indonesia. [more, antaranews]

Indonesia's Indosat nine-month net profit up 56 pct on stronger sales

JAKARTA, Nov. 21, 2007 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- Indonesia's second-biggest telecom company PT Indosat (NYSE:IIT) said its net profit for the first nine months rose 56 percent to 1.45 trillion rupiah, helped by stronger sales.Sales increased 34 percent to 11.88 trillion rupiah, with revenue from the cellular business rising 38 percent to 9.15 trillion rupiah.Indosat said its operating profit for the first nine months reached 3.20 trillion rupiah, up 31 percent on the same period in the previous year. [more, cnnmoney]

Ericsson, Telkomsel deploy solar base station in Indonesia

STOCKHOLM (MarketWatch) -- Ericsson Wednesday announced its latest evolution in low-energy telecommunication solutions, a solar-driven and energy-efficient main-remote GSM base station deployed in conjunction with Indonesian operator PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel). [more, marketwatch]

Indonesia's Telkom kept a 'buy', target price raised by 9.5 percent - UBS

JAKARTA, Nov 14, 2007 (Thomson Financial via COMTEX) -- TLK charts news PowerRating -- UBS said Wednesday it's sticking with a "buy" rating on Indonesia's biggest telecom company PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) and raised its target price by 9.5 percent to factor in faster growth in fixed wireless and the broadband business in the medium to long term. [more, tradingmarkets]

TELEKOMRisTI Selects VPIsystems' OnePlan for VoIP Network Analysis and Migration

HOLMDEL, N.J., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Though an emerging market, Indonesia has one of the highest broadband growth rates in the world, at more than 200 percent annually.(1) To accommodate the rapid and substantial service and subscriber growth, carriers like incumbent PT Telekom are migrating their legacy TDM networks to next generation IP/MPLS networks that offer the promise of dramatically increased bandwidth and high quality of experience (QoE) for customers. The migration of those services to the new networks is a daunting challenge, however, since by their nature, IP networks are liable to drop or delay packets during overload conditions, introducing jitter and delay in services like VoIP, video and gaming. The last thing a carrier needs as it migrates its customers to a new network is for those customers to experience service problems during that migration [more, tmcnet]

Indonesia's Telkom fixed-line, cellular subscribers up 31 percent at end-Sept

Indonesia's biggest telephone company PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) said Friday it had 58.8 million fixed-line and cellular subscribers as of end-September, up 31 percent on an annualised basis. Cellular subscribers increased 36.9 percent to 44.5 million, representing more than 50 percent market share, Telkom said. [more, tradingmarkets]

Indonesia's Telkom to pay interim dividend of 48.45 rupiah per share

Indonesia's largest telephone company PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) said Friday it will pay an interim dividend of 48.45 rupiah per share after posting strong nine-month earnings. [more, tradingmarkets]

RIM and Indosat introduce BlackBerry Curve 8300 and BlackBerry 8800 to Indonesia

The BlackBerry Curve 8300 and the BlackBerry 8800 smartphones from wireless solutions provider Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM) (TSX:RIM) have been introduced in Indonesia through Indosat, a telecomms and information service provider. [more, tradingmarkets]

Indosat Launches Two New BlackBerry Smartphones

The BlackBerry Curve 8300 is an innovative smartphone designed for customers who want a feature-rich multimedia phone with best-in-class mobile voice and data communication capabilities. It enables people on the move to make calls, send emails, surf the Internet, take and send photographs, listen to music, watch videos, access their organizer, and enjoy a range of other business and leisure applications. [more, huliq.com]

Indonesian govt to issue ruling on telecom tower-sharing by year-end

JAKARTA (Thomson Financial) - The Indonesian government is planning to issue a new ruling that will require mobile phone operators to share their transmitting towers to create a more efficient industry infrastructure, said an official at the Communications and Information Ministry. [more, abcmoney]

Indonesia's Telkom keen to expand abroad -chairman

(Telkom), Indonesia's largest telecommunications firm, is very keen to move beyond its home market and make acquisitions abroad to boost profit growth, its chairman Tanri Abeng said on Tuesday. Telkom (TLKM.JK: Quote, Profile, Research)(TLK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will target emerging markets such as the Middle East and southeast Asia, and could also look for small stakes in companies in developed economies, Abeng told Reuters at a financial forum in Beijing. [more, reuters]

SingTel's Mobile Subscribers Up 57%

The regional subscriber base of State-owned Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) has grown by a staggering 57 per cent in the past year as the company takesadvatage of massive mobile phone growth in the Asia region. [more, mobilised]

SAT-GE aids growth of PT Telkom in Eastern Indonesia services roll-out

[ Bethesda, Maryland Business Wire via ITWeb, 1 November 2007 ] - SAT-GE, a provider of unique C and Ku-band satellite coverage stretching across the Pacific Ocean Region from coast-to-coast, today announced the provision of satellite capacity across Eastern Indonesia for PT Telkom, the leading incumbent telecommunications operator in Indonesia.Using multiple transponders on the GE-23 satellite, PT Telkom are able to rapidly extend their GSM/CDMA network and other services over Eastern Indonesia, providing connectivity deep into Papua, Maluku and Sulawesi. [more, ITWeb]

Indosat confirms additional loan for network expansion

Indonesia’s second largest telecoms company by subscribers, PT Indosat, says it has secured an additional loan of IDR400 billion (USD44.4 million) from Bank Central Asia (BCA) to help finance its network expansion programme. The telco has now borrowed a total of IDR2 trillion from BCA. [more, telegeography]

INDONESIA'S INDOSAT GETS ADDITIONAL LOAN TO FINANCE EXPANSION

JAKARTA, Nov 02, 2007 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- PSATF charts news PowerRating -- The country's second largest telecommunications company PT Indosat (JSX:ISAT) said it has received an additional loan of Rp400 billion (US$44.4 million) bringing its total loan to Rp2 trillion from Bank Central Asia (BCA).
The loan to be used to help finance its spending this year will mature in 2012, Indosat President Johnny Swandi said. [more, tradingmarkets]

BRIEFING - ASIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS - NOV 1, 2007

Nov 01, 2007 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- LTCLF charts news PowerRating -- An executive briefing on the telecommunications industry for Nov 1, 2007, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.
LG TELECOM OUTPACES KTF IN LURING NEW CUSTOMERS IN OCT
SEOUL - LG Telecom Ltd., South Korea's smallest mobile service carrier, outperformed its bigger rival KTF Co. (KSE:032390) in attracting new customers in October, according to data released by each operator Thursday. [more, tradingmarkets]

ST Telemedia submits defence in Indonesia anti-monopoly case

JAKARTA : Singapore Technologies Telemedia has presented its defence against allegations that it violated Indonesia's anti-monopoly law. The company's lawyers, who are in the Indonesia capital Jakarta to appear before a panel from the anti-monopoly watchdog (KPPU), expressed concerns over the allegations. [more, channelnewsasia]

Temasek submits final defence in anti-monopoly case

INDONESIA : Temasek Holdings has submitted its final defence in the anti-monopoly case against it by Indonesian watchdog KPPU. The Singapore investment company was charged with violating Indonesia's anti-monopoly laws through its stake in two large mobile telecommunication operators. [more, channelnewsasia]