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Articles tagged with: Telkomsel and Satelindo
Indonesia's Telkomsel surges forward as rivals falter
The Indonesian market has seen phenomenal growth in recent quarters, but in Q1 09 there was a definite cooling off. The previous seven quarters had seen net additions in excess of 7m, with a peak of 14.94m in Q3 08, but in Q1 09 there was a gain of just 4.47m. This was the lowest figure since Q3 06. The total market reached 144.64m with penetration at 56.8%. Although Annual growth was still impressive at 41.0%, despite falling from 48.2% in the prior twelve-month period, but on a quarterly basis the uplift of 3.2% was the lowest for more than ten years. more
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Indonesia Subscriber Growth Reports Another Record Quarter
The Indonesian market achieved a record figure for quarterly net additions in Q3 08 with an increase of 15.5m, 2m higher than the previous record, which was set in Q2 08. This took the number of connections in Indonesia to 131.64m, with annual growth of 57.1% compared to 47.9% for the prior twelve months. more
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Top 20 Operators in Asia-Pac: Bharti overtakes DoCoMo, India Gains Ground
The mobile markets of the Asia Pacific region continues to grow in importance. In Issue 99, we reported the fact that at the end of September, there were 20 networks in the world with more than 30m customers, of which eight were in this region. Those eight included the two largest - China Mobile and China Unicom - as well as the seventh, eighth, tenth, twelfth, 13th and 20th. Just three months later, there are now 23 networks that have passed the 30m mark and nine of these are now in the AsiaPac region, including four from India. Of the nine, four now have over 50m customers, the other two outside China being Bharti from India and DoCoMo from Japan. Together, the nine have a total of 831m customers, or just under 25% of the global market. more
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Asia Pacific Operators in Q3 '07: CDMA staging a revival?
The three months ended September 30th saw a record number of new connections in the Asia Pacific region. Overall, nearly 85 million new customers were connected which is very nearly as many as Germany, Europe's largest economy, has added in the 22 years since mobile service started. The vast majority of these chose to adopt either GSM or WCDMA technology, these two accounting for 66.1m and 9.4m of the total respectively. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, wcdma, china-mobile, telekom-malaysia, telenor, telenor-pakistan, bsnl, aircel, viettel, excelcomindo, fixed-wireless, orascom
Indosat increases its holding in Satelindo
Indonesia's Indosat has completed the acquisition of 100% of Bimagraha for US$372 million. Bimagraha is a holding company whose only substantial asset is a 45% shareholding in Satelindo. The acquisition of Bimagraha gives Indosat an effective controlling shareholding in Satelindo of 75%, although Indosat only holds legal title to 52.5% at this time. more
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