Syahrial Ali’s Blog

As written in previous posting about BWA tender in Indonesia, the Indonesian Telecommunication Regulator in its white paper draft about BWA plan to release the BWA license before the end of the year. However most probably this plan will be postponed. This could be seen from the first process stage namely taking of the tender document that shall be done in the 4th week of November and up until now it is not announced yet.

Suppose the document will be issued this week and the process run smoothly, then the earliest tender will be started at the beginning of this coming January 2009. But as is already known, the end year is busy periods that are accompanied with the several holidays, and this time are Idhul Adha, Christmas and New Year. As a result the effective length of service far decreased. Considering all of these, the earliest BWA tender will be realised this coming February 2009. If this happened then it is precisely three years after the tender 3G that was carried out at the beginning of 2006.

The regulator of the Indonesian Telecommunications applies the elegant way to release the license with many interested parties, namely tender. We support every effort that put the transparancy and fairness. Congratulation to Indonesian Telecommunication Regulator!.