USO project is re-tendered

The government readies to re-open tender for universal service obligation (USO) program. The Minister for Communication and Information Muhammad Nuh said the tender will be held in March or April this year. “Thousands of villages have been waiting for the project here,” he said last Monday following the release of Indonesian ICT Award 2008 at his office Jakarta. He admitted the legal suit of PT Asia Cellular Satellite (AceS) did not bother him. He even believed that the government will win over the case due to the government’s evidences on the some schemes of five schemes as the requirement of prior tender, but the participants failed to meet them. (Koran Tempo, pg B8)