Over the last few days, there had been advertisements for @me (atme) on TV. While it offers little information, @me promises freebies related to phone calls, SMS, and sticker service between its users. Based on what we discovered, there may be a link between @me at a mobile operator. Continue reading What is Atme?
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Indonesian Mobile Data and SMS Usage Increased as Voice Services Declined During 2013 Lebaran Period
The increase in traffic flow during the Eid season doesn’t just apply to the road traffic. With the number of Indonesian cellular subscribers exceeding the population of the country, the increase is also experienced by telecommunication traffic in the form of SMS and data connectivity for a number of telcos in Indonesia. So how have the carriers performed?
Sleeping With The Enemy: Telco vs OTT
Earlier today, I attended a discussion event held by our friends at IndoTelko. I find the event super interesting because they’re covering one of the biggest question in the telecommunication industry “OTT, Friends or Foe?”. The event itself was attended by all the top people from the telco companies, CEOs from XL Axiata, Indosat, Smartfren, Telkomsel, Axis and also telecommunications regulatory body, BRTI as well as Andy Zain to represent the OTT side. Continue reading Sleeping With The Enemy: Telco vs OTT
Indonesians Sent 34% Fewer SMS Messages in September Compared to June
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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How to get Indonesian startups into the “Millions of Users” club
It bothers me that for the past 4 years or so, the number of Indonesian startups grows really fast producing hundreds of new consumer companies each year, but almost none of them reaches “the million-users” club. As big as the traction gets, it’s a couple hundreds of thousands users not not even in the millions. Why is this happening? Has no one crack the code?
Most startups I talked to always think that they have to focus on addressing real problems, building great products and make money out of it. What most people might have left out, is the fact that they need a user base for their products. How to get people to register to your site and become a member with full benefits. The problem is there’s not enough platform to grow into millions of users in Indonesia.
Let’s drill down.
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CDMA Operator Keeps Losing Money, Now What?
There is a topic raised by IndoTelko and becomes the main question for me for the last few days. Of the four still operating CDMA operators, two of them has been suffering heavy losses (Bakrie Telecom and Smartfren), one operator is basically can be considered dead (StarOne) and another one (Telkom Flexi), even though protected by the largest telecommunication company, is in fact experience a major customer decrease and no longer active. Why is that? Is there any way for them to remain and compete with their competitor, especially the “Big 3” GSM operators that dominate the market?
Let’s first review the condition of CDMA operator globally. Countries that own CDMA operator that is still running until now, are few. Only the United States, Japan, Korea and China are considered to be successfully defending their CDMA operator. The rest prefers to maintain the GSM hegemony. The success story of CDMA operator in these countries is relatively similar; has a broad range of coverage and supported by high-speed broadband technology to access data.
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Ericsson Predicted Mobile Broadband Subscriber Will be Double In 2012
VP Marketing & Communications Ericsson Indonesia, Hardyana Syntawati predicts a significant increase of mobile broadband subscribers in Indonesia doubles until the end of this year.
Their internal data has shown that until the end of 2011, this figure is floating around 60 million subscribers. Many factors such as cheap mobile broadband devices have supported its consumption growth rates in Indonesia. Manufacturers of low-end mobile phones play a very important role to distribute these services to all Indonesia consumers.
Ericsson has pointed out that data-consumption rates will continue to increase along with the growth of online contexts such as social networking sites, news sites and even many are already doing business online. With the increase of the number of local content that can be consumed, it will generally improve Indonesia’s Internet economy significantly.
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Ericsson Prediksi Pelanggan Mobile Broadband Naik 2x Lipat Tahun 2012
VP Marketing & Communications Ericcson Indonesia, Hardyana Syntawati mengungkapkan bahwa pihaknya memprediksi kenaikan yang signifikan untuk jumlah pelanggan mobile broadband di Indonesia hingga 2x lipat sampai akhir tahun ini.
Data mereka menunjukkan bahwa hingga akhir 2011 lalu angka ini berkisar 60 juta pelanggan. Faktor-faktor seperti perangkat mobile broadband yang makin murah sangat mendukung tingkat pertumbuhan konsumsi mobile broadband di Indonesia. Produsen telepon seluler low-end berperan sangat penting untuk mendistribusikan layanan ini ke seluruh penjuru Indonesia.
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