Kontan daily newspaper today reported that between June and September of this year there had been an average decline of 13% in monthly SMS deliveries across Indonesia’s mobile networks according to the Indonesian association of telecommunication interconnection clearing (Askitel). Askitel is an agency that calculates and processes data transfers that occur between the country’s mobile networks. The diminishing SMS traffic is attributed to the increase in the use of internet based text messaging as well as the introduction of shared interconnection cost.

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