AT&T gets telecom license in Indonesia

 

AT&T announced it has become the first foreign
telecom operator to secure a Multimedia Services Operator (MSO) license in
Indonesia.

 

Through its joint venture PT AT&T Global Network
Services Indonesia (AT&T Indonesia), this reinforces its commitment to
serving the global needs of multinational customers with operations in
Indonesia and throughout the world.

 

Today’s announcement was made possible by the Indonesia
Government’s policy permitting up to 95 percent foreign ownership for
communications services in the country. AT&T owns 95 percent of the joint
venture.

 

 

The license will enable AT&T to directly deliver
services to multinational customers in Indonesia; to improve the customer
experience through simpler contracting and billing arrangements; to expand its
portfolio of services and shorten the development time for new products and
services.

 

 

AT&T currently offers Virtual Private Network and other value-added data services to multinational corporations that have
locations in Indonesia working with existing locally licensed Indonesian
service providers. With the new MSO license, AT&T Indonesia will directly
provide global managed network services and business applications.  

 

This underscores our strategy of being a trail-blazer in
entering new and emerging markets to support our global MNC customers wherever
their business takes them,” said Choo Hock Lye, general manager of AT&T
ASEAN.

 

 

Many of our key multinational customers have told us
they need to be in Indonesia, and while AT&T has been operating a
successful business here, the new license will allow us to deliver an array of
new services and make it much easier for us to do business with multinational
customers,” Lye added.

 

 

Through the new license, and related government
approvals, AT&T Indonesia is planning to introduce several enhancements to
its service portfolio including managed LAN, managed IP services and managed
application services.

 

 

AT&T has invested more than $4 billion since 2006 in
business-focused international network, systems and applications to provide a
globally consistent set of robust and highly-secure services to the business
customers it serves worldwide.

 

 

By TelecomLead.com Team
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