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According to the schedule released by Indonesian Directorate General of Post Telecommunication, the license of broadband wireless access (BWA) will be released by the end of this year. Participants can bring any kind of technology WiMAX, WiBRO or other kind of broadband technology which can run on the specified spectrum frequency. Among them, WiMAX will be the favorable choice.

WiMAX is a broadband wireless technology that is largely supported by the computer and the telecom industry, cost-effective and standard base. It is engineered to deliver the latest type of ubiquitous fixed and mobile services such as VoIP, Information Technology and Video at very low cost. WiMAX systems are able to cover a large geographical area, up to 50 km and to deliver significant bandwidth to end-users up to 72 Mbps (taken from WiMAX forum). (more…)

Indonesian Telecommunication Authority has released a tentative schedule for the selection of Broadband Wireless Access Provider. According to New BWA White Paper, all the processes shall be finished by the last week of 2008. On the 3rd week of November 2008, there will be an announcement for the selection and then followed by the auction process which will end at the 4th week of December.

The spectrum frequency band for this auction are 2.3GHz and 3.3GHz.

On 2.3GHz, only 15 MHz will be auctioned, i.e. 2375 – 2390 MHz. Meanwhile, in 3.3GHz, there are 100MHz which are divided into 8 blocks of 12.5 MHz. Unfortunately, for 3.3GHz the most interested area (Jakarta metropolitan area) is already occupied. The participant shall be from network or service provider, incumbent or new entries. Both licenses are just for nomadic BWA.

The license will be regional based, where Indonesia is divided into 14 regions.

The spirit of this license is to use local resources, that is minimum 30% CAPEX and 50% OPEX.

So, hurry up. Prepare your document soon!

For detail information, please read the new BWA white paper.

A special task force in Indonesian Communication and Information Ministry has made a press release concerning the Public consultation on BWA. The public are invited to give comment for the new BWA white paper (language: Indonesian) that just released. The response shall be received by October 25th.

This consultancy is meant to complete the previous white paper released on November 2006. Apart from public’s consultations, this document compilation was based on inputs from the existing broadband organizers and stakeholder in telecommunications, and references from several international forums like results of the session WRC-2007,

This document focus on the government intention to spread out the service of wide band acces. Nevertheless, the meaning of this event not only relate to a new telecommunication services,  but  far more significant than that. By being spread out the broad band wirleless access,  Indonesia enter a new telecommunications environment. Old environment that was characterized by the narrow band for the voice moved to the wideband for multimedia, and the network of the PSTN will  begin to converge with  the global network of the Internet in which its architectures and capabilities are completely different.

If you read the document carefully then you will know that the Indonesian Telecommunication regulator will release a regulation concerning BWA in 2.3GHz and 3.3GHz. Hopefully, Indonesia will have broadband services in the near future.