The executive general manager of Telkom Customer Service for Eastern Area, Sukardi Silalahi, said here on Monday the hot-spots would be set up in cooperation with the company`s subsidiaries such as Telkomsel, Speedy and Flexi.
"This shows Telkom`s commitment to easing public information access to make the Indonesian people more advanced and smarter," he said.
Sukardi said the development of the hot-spots was also the follow up to the "Indonesia Wi-Fi program" launched by the company`s president director Rinaldi Firmansyah recently.
The setting up of the installations is done simultaneously in different locations by Telkomsel, Speedy and Flexi.
Telkomsel has provided a priority for the setting up hotspots in shopping centers while Flexinet in shopping centers and educational institutions and Speedy in public areas.
"Later hot-spots belonging to Telkom will be available in various locations which Telkom product users could use them to access internet service," he said.
He said out of around 5,400 hot-spots to be built by Telkomsel more than 516 have already been installed.
Meanwhile 312 Speedy hotspots have been operational out of the planned 2,000 to be set up in East Java and Indonesia`s eatern regions.
Flexi Division for East Java area, Bali and Nusa Tenggara have also set up 36 Flexinet hot-spots at campuses and shopping centers.
"In the future after all are already installed Telkom will apply `a single sign on` upon which Speedy users at home could also access the hot-spots free of charge. This also applies to users of Telkomsel and Flexinet," Sukardi said.
To support Speedy`s broadband service Telkom through its Infratel Division and subsidiary Telkom International has prepared a band-with capacity of up 100 Gbps.
Telkom meanwhile is just finishing the development of more than 47,000 kilometer long optic fiber network from Aceh to Papua under the "Nusantara Super Highway" project.
(Uu.H-YH/HAJM)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
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