Indosat Enhances its Network With Nokia Siemens

Indosat, a leading Indonesian mobile operator, together with Nokia Siemens, will expand and enhance its nationwide wireless network in order to better respond to the "unprecedented subscriber growth" in the last months.

Nokia Siemens Networks will deploy a mobile softswitching solution, allowing Indosat to give its current and future subscribers the best possible services. Furthermore, Nokia Siemens guarantees for the new network's stability and efficiency, by offering services such as network design, equipment renewal, product maintenance and so on.

Talking about the collaboration with Nokia Siemens, Johnny Swandi Sjam, President Director of Indosat, declared, "Indosat acknowledges and continuously strives to address the challenge of improving our services for our loyal customers. We believe that with Nokia Siemens Networks, renowned for their efficient and reliable solutions, as our partner, we can meet this challenge. Thus, we are able to provide complete communications solutions to our customers and ultimately retain Indosat's leadership in the market".

"The Indonesian telecommunications market is seeing tremendous traffic growth," added Arjun Trivedi, Head of sub-region Indonesia for Nokia Siemens Networks. "Our future-proof technology is designed to meet a demanding mobile environment as users become more data-hungry. Our reliability, combined with a best-in-class services capability, will allow Indosat to meet market demand and work towards an all IP environment - the ideal platform for today and tomorrow."

With more than 26 million subscribers, Indosat is the second largest mobile carrier in Indonesia (after Telkomsel, which has about 50 million users). The Asian archipelagic country has a population of 234 million and only 118 million mobile subscribers; hence, the mobile penetration rate is only of about 50%. This allows all the current operators to easily enlarge their subscribers' base, and Indosat is getting ready to do so with the new networking solutions that Nokia Siemens will deploy.