26 September 2007

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.

25 September 2007

Telco's Vendor




After a while, in observing the telco vendor in telecommunication industry in Indonesia, there are few player that consistent in their field in telco. Let's divided the vendor on their country and core technology.

The one that always become the major is Israel, on field that strongly hold, Billing, some vendor to be mentioned is amdocs (Billing vendor used by XL), TVNT (electronic voucher used by Smart) and SMS gateway that used by Indosat.

The other one is China, with the network field, some name to be mentioned is off course Huawei with their MSC, IN and other service like Data Service some of their users is Esia. Following the Huawei is ZTE, the government owned company is used by Telkom and Smart.

And also the latest one is our local vendor, Indonesia, that provide us with "All in Service" :), the type of service that try to fix and integrate anything that couldn't be covered by the previous two country. One of the popular one is Number Management by easySoft that used by several operator including Indosat, Esia and Telkom. The other one is Telaccess with their SMS Blast.

So, as our minister already said, let's just developing our competence in IT by simple motto, "Just Do It"