Competition in Providing Data Service
After the regulator of Indonesia Telecommunication reducing the interconnection tariff on April 1st, 2008, the voice telecommunication tariff is getting lower and lower. Operators were competing in tariff war. Right now we will find that many operators will charge their customers not only time based or number of call based, but on daily basis. It means that the customers will be charged some amount of money (from Rp 1,000- 2,000 (around US$ 10 cents – 20 cents), unrelated with the number of calls or the duration of the calls you have made during that day. Very cheap indeed.
As the result of this campaign, the operators’ income from voice will decrease. So, there should be an alternate source of income to fill the gap. Some of them are: SMS, MMS, value added services and internet services. (more…)
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