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Directorate General of Post and Telecommunication of Republic Indonesia just released the subscribers data yesterday. The data consists of both of fixed and wireless communication since the year of 2004 and up to mids of June 2008. The table below shows the data of all Indonesia operator namely: Telkomsel, Indosat both GSM and CDMA, Excelcom, Axis and Three, and Flexi, Esia, Fren, Smart Telecom and Sampoerna Telecom.

Source: DG Postel

Total subscribers (Fixed, FWA and Cellular) are:
2004: 40,712,988
2005: 60,499,948
2006: 78,623,748
2007: 112,916,388
June 2008: 134,577,303

As written in the previous posting testing-time-for-operators-network, the end of Ramadan is the peak traffic both for voices and short message services for Indonesian Cellular Operators. Below are the data for telecommunication traffics as reported by each operator to the DG Postel.

PT Excelcomindo Pratama (XL) data shows the highest traffic is at D-1 (Sept 30th) where the total traffic is 149% above the data of D-1 last year. The voice call at D-1 is 143% above last year (850 million calls compares to 350 million call on last year). The SMS is only 16% above of last year data.

PT Indosat Tbk announced that the highest voice call occurred on D+1 (Oct 2nd), up around 108% (272 million seconds) compares to the data from mids September this year. Meanwhile, the SMS traffic just decreased 0.7% at the same period.

The data from the biggest cellular operator in Indonesia, Telkomsel was not announced so far. However, they have seen that the short message traffic was up around 300%-400% from normal days. (more…)