Our Subscriber Growth

Today, let's talk about our telecommunication subscriber in our beloved country. Indonesia as fourth largest country in the whole world, with total more that 200 million people, and of course a very potensial market for anything, especially for telecommunication products.

As a summary let starts counting, 40 million for Telkomsel, 3.7 million for Flexi and 10.2 for XL. And all of them just only covering the 30% of all Indonesia market. That's way Hutch persistently try to get the open market, also maxis, sampoerna and smart telecom, if we want to mention all the available operator out there.

But, the best part is, when we talk about the number of subscriber, actually the number is not that perfectly truth, for example, the number that every operator gave, often included the already expired customer, or customer that already not using those product (or we called it grace) for almost 3 month. The range of 3 month or even 6 month is absolutely defined by the operator without any regulation to limit the expired period.

The other factor, the dummy subscriber (the subscriber that are not register properly), XL faces this problem, that affected their subscriber growth, from almost to 1 million growth in 1st semester 2007 to only 200.000 after the cleansing action to those dummy subscriber.

So, as a customer of two operator, I'll just hope that the price will reduce and the quality will improve.