Onnet vs. Offnet

This post shall actually be published one day in March :-) I haven't remembered precisely anymore the thing I want to address except that as indicated by the title. Maybe I'll just go for a rough idea.

I was trying to model traffic (relations, matrices, etc.) between operators. To obtain realistic results I had to assume a quite high factor for onnet traffic. That onnet traffic shall be higher than offnet, it is intuitively justified, because the operators always try to increase their customer base with many attractive marketing efforts, pricing schemes or other policies. Rough speaking, I had to use onnet factors in the range of 0.60 to 0.75. This was, informally, justified by some technical persons in the operators.

Indonesian Telcos : The Map (1)

In this post I want to give a global map of the current telecommunication players in Indonesia. This is not intended to give a complete profile of the telcos but just to implicitly mention how competitive is the domestic telecommunication market todays. The figure above shows the dominant players. Several facts are worth to be noted.

AAG : Something New ?

Several days ago I was 'googling' for the AAG - Asia America Gateway - submarine cable system. I just want to update myself with (and was expecting to find) some new information about it. Almost one year ago, I heard for the first time about this project just a while after many asian countries were healed / relaxed from the effect of the Taiwan's earthquake on Dec 2006. At that time, I wrote a short article about it in a local newspaper.

Indonesian Telcos' Customer Base (2006)

As of 12/2006, Indonesia has around 78 millions telecommunication subscribers. Since around 8 millions are fixed-line subscribers, 70 millions thereof are wireless and cellular telecommunication customers.

Metro and Access Infrastructures

In providing metro connectivity services, Telkom and Indosat are accompanied by other players. Although they have still a dominant market share, several ISPs and new entrants have entered this market in several cities, especially providing metro IP-based services.

Traditional fixed-line (telephone) access infrastructures are still (almost 100%) owned and operated by Telkom. Other operators including Indosat prioritized development in wireless fixed lines, which obviously need smaller capital investments.