Predictions for Indonesia’s telecommunications market

Indonesia’s wireless communications market has made significant progress over the last five years.Telkoms Speedy DSL, has made progress in the market by upgrading the available speed and reducing tariffs. Telkomsel, while still very profitable by industry standards. The largest three mobile operators in the market still have significant market power, with Telkomsel, Indosat and XL serving 78 percent of all market subscribers at the end of 2008. CDMA operator Mobile 8 is reportedly closer to selling a strategic stake in its business, while rival Bakrie (Telecom) expects to merge by 2010 with a CDMA or GSM operator while the smaller GSM players such as Hutchison and Axis could also partake in merger and acquisition activity. / The Jakarta Post, pg 16