Harry Sasongko, the CEO of Indonesia’s second largest telecoms operator by subscribers and revenues, PT Indosat, has reportedly said that his firm reached and passed the 50 million mobile subscriber barrier in the third quarter of this year – beating the group’s full-year target with three months to spare.
Although official third-quarter operational and financial information is yet to be published, TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database notes that Indosat reported a sharp 131.6% rise in net income for the first six months of this year, driven by climbing revenues, lower costs and the impact of currency gains. The telco booked H1 profit of IDR681.9 billion (USD80.1 million) on revenue of IDR10.05 trillion, which was up 4% from IDR9.66 trillion in the first half of 2010. Indosat said costs fell 70% year-on-year from IDR1.1 trillion to IDR330.6 billion, and currency gains rose 25.1% y-o-y to IDR47.3 billion. The telco closed out June 2011 with 47.3 million mobile subscribers, up 25.1% from 37.8 million a year earlier. It also reported 506,800 wireless broadband customers, down from 751,900 in 1H10, and 350,500 fixed wireless access (FWA) subscribers (697,400).
Source: http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2011/10/05/indosat-topped-50m-subscribers-at-end-september-ceo-says/ on 5th October 2011.
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Thursday, 6 October 2011
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Benefits of Bulk SMS
Do you want proper promotion for your newly established company? Do you want proper advertising of your company? All these can be done very easily with the help of Bulk SMS. If you don't let the customers know about your company then what is the whole point of establishing one? For any company to grow and flourish in the market, they must market themselves so well that they can reach each and every target group. If you want to get information about a particular company then all you have to do is register yourself with that company and you will receive daily updated news about the company.
People these days always try to remain connected with the world through their phone. Mobile phones have become so technologically advanced that getting information at the finger tip cannot be a problem anymore. You can say that this is a new tool that has been invented which can effectively bring a nascent company in to limelight in a very short period. There are many telecom brands that have this facility of bulk SMS and every day they send news updates, updates on sports.
The modern trade outlets find the use of Bulk SMS as the best medium to reach out to their loyal customers. They choose the number from the database and they start sending the messages on any new offer that they start. With Bulk sms, you receive the information instantly and there is no communication gap. Now you receive it or delete it, that's your take. You can get any kind of information through bulk sms. Bulk Sms basically follows a certain target group to whom they send across the messages. It is understood that Bulk sms is the best and the most useful tool that is utilized for the marketing facility. Bulk sms is known as Mobile advertising. It is almost like advertising your company through phone. Therefore we can see that the use of bulk sms has increased rapidly because they are fast and economical. Bulk sms facility is also use for getting feedbacks from the customers which is very important.
Source: http://www.sooperarticles.com/communications-articles/mobile-sms-articles/benefits-bulk-sms-654215.html by Maria Gini.
People these days always try to remain connected with the world through their phone. Mobile phones have become so technologically advanced that getting information at the finger tip cannot be a problem anymore. You can say that this is a new tool that has been invented which can effectively bring a nascent company in to limelight in a very short period. There are many telecom brands that have this facility of bulk SMS and every day they send news updates, updates on sports.
The modern trade outlets find the use of Bulk SMS as the best medium to reach out to their loyal customers. They choose the number from the database and they start sending the messages on any new offer that they start. With Bulk sms, you receive the information instantly and there is no communication gap. Now you receive it or delete it, that's your take. You can get any kind of information through bulk sms. Bulk Sms basically follows a certain target group to whom they send across the messages. It is understood that Bulk sms is the best and the most useful tool that is utilized for the marketing facility. Bulk sms is known as Mobile advertising. It is almost like advertising your company through phone. Therefore we can see that the use of bulk sms has increased rapidly because they are fast and economical. Bulk sms facility is also use for getting feedbacks from the customers which is very important.
Source: http://www.sooperarticles.com/communications-articles/mobile-sms-articles/benefits-bulk-sms-654215.html by Maria Gini.
Monday, 3 October 2011
Indonesia - MasterCard to Enable Mobile Payments in Indonesia
MasterCard, a leading payment processing service, plans to develop new retail systems that can be accessed via mobile phones, the company’s representative for the Asia-Pacific region said last week.
“Indonesia would be one of the leading markets for mobile-enabled payment. It could be beyond the traditional plastic cards, so we could enable similar services for people without a credit card or debit card today through the mobile device,” said Phillip Yen, group head of emerging payments for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at MasterCard Worldwide.
Indonesia’s market offers several potential advantages for MasterCard, he said. The company is interested in the country’s large number of mobile phone users, which now has 180 million users.
Such services are not new here. Indonesia’s biggest mobile-phone operator, Telkomsel, already has a similar service, called T-Cash.
Vadyo Munaan, vice president and senior country manager at MasterCard, said the service would help boost e-commerce in the country.
“MasterCard will make sure the Internet payment system is secure,” he said.
According to research from IT company Sharing Vision, online sales in Indonesia last year reached Rp 43 trillion ($4.9 billion). This year, the figure is expected to jump 28 percent to Rp 55 trillion, thanks to greater use of online payments.
Yen and Vadyo would not divulge the volume of MasterCard transactions in Indonesia.
Mobile subscriptions grew by 50 percent between 2003 and 2008. By the end of 2009, Indonesia’s mobile subscribers totaled 143.6 million and grew to around 180 million last year.
The positive growth trend is likely to continue at a 10 percent or more increase this year, and by 2013 Indonesia will become the fourth-largest mobile market in the world behind China, India and the United States.
Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/business/mastercard-to-enable-mobile-payments-in-indonesia/469116 by Shirley Christie on 2nd October 2011.
“Indonesia would be one of the leading markets for mobile-enabled payment. It could be beyond the traditional plastic cards, so we could enable similar services for people without a credit card or debit card today through the mobile device,” said Phillip Yen, group head of emerging payments for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at MasterCard Worldwide.
Indonesia’s market offers several potential advantages for MasterCard, he said. The company is interested in the country’s large number of mobile phone users, which now has 180 million users.
Such services are not new here. Indonesia’s biggest mobile-phone operator, Telkomsel, already has a similar service, called T-Cash.
Vadyo Munaan, vice president and senior country manager at MasterCard, said the service would help boost e-commerce in the country.
“MasterCard will make sure the Internet payment system is secure,” he said.
According to research from IT company Sharing Vision, online sales in Indonesia last year reached Rp 43 trillion ($4.9 billion). This year, the figure is expected to jump 28 percent to Rp 55 trillion, thanks to greater use of online payments.
Yen and Vadyo would not divulge the volume of MasterCard transactions in Indonesia.
Mobile subscriptions grew by 50 percent between 2003 and 2008. By the end of 2009, Indonesia’s mobile subscribers totaled 143.6 million and grew to around 180 million last year.
The positive growth trend is likely to continue at a 10 percent or more increase this year, and by 2013 Indonesia will become the fourth-largest mobile market in the world behind China, India and the United States.
Source: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/business/mastercard-to-enable-mobile-payments-in-indonesia/469116 by Shirley Christie on 2nd October 2011.
Indonesia - Indonesian Entrepreneurs Use Technology to Get Ambitious
In Indonesia's booming capital of Jakarta, it’s not just the five-star hotel lounges that are packed with businessmen talking about deals and proposals.
The Coffee Tree cafe in Mall of Indonesia, North Jakarta is also bustling with customers. Not just any ordinary customers, that is. On a Tuesday afternoon, the cafe's patrons are mainly entrepreneurs from various parts of Indonesia scouting for business and investing opportunities in Jakarta.
The large teak tables in the cafe are like work stations. Lying among coffee-stained mugs and French presses, are business proposals, name cards, plans and products for testing.
At a particular table, an entrepreneur was giving a slideshow presentation projected against the cafe wall to a small group of potential investors.
Yonathan Purnomo hails from the city of Surabaya on Java Island and has recently set up a business venture selling botanical beauty products via a direct-selling system using an online database known as Immortal.com. The range of products sold are extensive, from painless hair removal cream to water ionizers.
Although Purnomo, 49, has not officially promoted his business widely yet, he says he already has 5,000 members in the direct-selling network, mainly housewives living in the city of Surabaya.
With an online database and payment system using mobile phones, Purnomo says its members will be able to make orders and purchases with just a phone call, without having to attend to physical stores.
Purnomo is among the rising number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia, which already has about 50 million small businesses. However, with the high mobile and Internet penetration in the country, Indonesian entrepreneurs are evolving into Internet-savvy business people.
By tapping into the mobile market, the cost of starting a business are getting lower, and at the same time, small companies are able to reach out to the populous nation that is spread across islands and villages.
According to data extracted by Mobile Money Live, a tracking system on global mobile penetration, Indonesia has one of the highest mobile penetration rates, with about 73% of its population of 240 million using cell phones. The country is also home to the second-largest population of Facebook users in the world, after the US, and fourth most Twitter account users.
It is no wonder why Google has recently announced that it will set up an office in Indonesia and potentially pour in some $100 million of investments into the country. Some of the plans include building online linkages and leveraging small and medium enterprises from Indonesia with foreign buyers.
A manager of a China-based mobile phone chip manufacturer, who did not want to be identified, told me “The potential is huge. We are talking about an average of 70 million subscribers for each telecommunications network here.”
A business venture known as Go-Jek recently captured the imagination of Indonesians when it received funding and the attention of foreign companies to expand its businesses in Jakarta. Go-Jek is a motorcycle courier service that provides passengers rides on motorcycles to beat the capital city’s notorious traffic jams.
Started barely eight months ago, Go-Jek uses its website, Facebook and Twitter accounts to draw publicity, and has over 200 reliable drivers and 80 pick-up points around the city.
With a GDP growth of 6.1% last year, Indonesia is one of the fastest-growing economies in the Southeast Asian region. The country is also vying for a spot to be among the Brazil-India-China-Russia cluster of emerging economies that are preferred by foreign investors.
The country saw some $13 billion poured in via foreign direct investments in 2010, as investors hunt for coal mines and other commodities-related investments such as palm plantations and metal.
However, as fears of a global recession looms near, Indonesia needs to prop up domestic demand and investments, as well as increase job creation for its people. One of the strategies is to spur entrepreneurship among the locals.
In a survey conducted by BBC in May, Indonesia ranked as the most favorable place for entrepreneurs, in terms of ease in starting businesses and innovation. Although locals say there is still much to improve, especially in terms of access to start-up capital.
Purnomo says apart from making his business a profitable entity, he says his venture will also create more entrepreneurs. “I am a teacher, and I believe in sharing knowledge with the people here,” he says.
Source: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Indonesian-Entrepreneurs-Use-Technology-to-Get-Ambitious--130913148.html by Yong Yen Nie on 1st October 2011.
The Coffee Tree cafe in Mall of Indonesia, North Jakarta is also bustling with customers. Not just any ordinary customers, that is. On a Tuesday afternoon, the cafe's patrons are mainly entrepreneurs from various parts of Indonesia scouting for business and investing opportunities in Jakarta.
The large teak tables in the cafe are like work stations. Lying among coffee-stained mugs and French presses, are business proposals, name cards, plans and products for testing.
At a particular table, an entrepreneur was giving a slideshow presentation projected against the cafe wall to a small group of potential investors.
Yonathan Purnomo hails from the city of Surabaya on Java Island and has recently set up a business venture selling botanical beauty products via a direct-selling system using an online database known as Immortal.com. The range of products sold are extensive, from painless hair removal cream to water ionizers.
Although Purnomo, 49, has not officially promoted his business widely yet, he says he already has 5,000 members in the direct-selling network, mainly housewives living in the city of Surabaya.
With an online database and payment system using mobile phones, Purnomo says its members will be able to make orders and purchases with just a phone call, without having to attend to physical stores.
Purnomo is among the rising number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia, which already has about 50 million small businesses. However, with the high mobile and Internet penetration in the country, Indonesian entrepreneurs are evolving into Internet-savvy business people.
By tapping into the mobile market, the cost of starting a business are getting lower, and at the same time, small companies are able to reach out to the populous nation that is spread across islands and villages.
According to data extracted by Mobile Money Live, a tracking system on global mobile penetration, Indonesia has one of the highest mobile penetration rates, with about 73% of its population of 240 million using cell phones. The country is also home to the second-largest population of Facebook users in the world, after the US, and fourth most Twitter account users.
It is no wonder why Google has recently announced that it will set up an office in Indonesia and potentially pour in some $100 million of investments into the country. Some of the plans include building online linkages and leveraging small and medium enterprises from Indonesia with foreign buyers.
A manager of a China-based mobile phone chip manufacturer, who did not want to be identified, told me “The potential is huge. We are talking about an average of 70 million subscribers for each telecommunications network here.”
A business venture known as Go-Jek recently captured the imagination of Indonesians when it received funding and the attention of foreign companies to expand its businesses in Jakarta. Go-Jek is a motorcycle courier service that provides passengers rides on motorcycles to beat the capital city’s notorious traffic jams.
Started barely eight months ago, Go-Jek uses its website, Facebook and Twitter accounts to draw publicity, and has over 200 reliable drivers and 80 pick-up points around the city.
With a GDP growth of 6.1% last year, Indonesia is one of the fastest-growing economies in the Southeast Asian region. The country is also vying for a spot to be among the Brazil-India-China-Russia cluster of emerging economies that are preferred by foreign investors.
The country saw some $13 billion poured in via foreign direct investments in 2010, as investors hunt for coal mines and other commodities-related investments such as palm plantations and metal.
However, as fears of a global recession looms near, Indonesia needs to prop up domestic demand and investments, as well as increase job creation for its people. One of the strategies is to spur entrepreneurship among the locals.
In a survey conducted by BBC in May, Indonesia ranked as the most favorable place for entrepreneurs, in terms of ease in starting businesses and innovation. Although locals say there is still much to improve, especially in terms of access to start-up capital.
Purnomo says apart from making his business a profitable entity, he says his venture will also create more entrepreneurs. “I am a teacher, and I believe in sharing knowledge with the people here,” he says.
Source: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Indonesian-Entrepreneurs-Use-Technology-to-Get-Ambitious--130913148.html by Yong Yen Nie on 1st October 2011.
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