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Article: Internet Broadband Development in Indonesia.(high-speed broadband Internet access)(Brief Article)
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- Asia Pacific Telecom
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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A number of Indonesian and foreign companies are making plans to enter the high-speed broadband Internet access market in Indonesia. These are further indications of the rapidly growing interests in Internet communications and e-commerce.
The majority state-owned Indonesian domestic carrier, PT Telkom, together with Cable & Wireless HKT Hong Kong, is currently developing its TurboNet high-speed Internet access. TurboNet will use the Telkom-1 satellite network that was launched last year. Turbo Net, claimed to have 2mbps speed, is to be launched in the first quarter of 2001.
On the large Indonesian island of Kalimantan, Telkom will introduce its new high ...