Gideon Edie Purnomo, Head of VAS, Applications and Device Management Group Telkomsel, says that the Android paid app download ratio through Telkomsel is only around 5%. Of 100 apps downloaded, only 5 are paid apps. Though so few, the number is a progress.
Meanwhile, the number of Android device is increasing rapidly during the last year. Today, the number of Android user Telkomsel customer reaches 2.5 million devices. This number is 15 times the number of last year which only 170 thousands devices. By the end of this year, Telkomsel targets that this number will continue to increase to 5 million devices.
Other than there are many producers which brought Android in to their cell phones, Gideon thinks that the rapid growth of Android user is also caused by the price of Android device that has become more affordable. Once, it was IDR6 million, now an Android smartphone is available for purchase for only IDR2 million.