Flash Info : Telkomsel 5G for Indonesia.
State-owned telecommunication operator Telkomsel launched on Thursday the first commercial 5G service in Indonesia, thereby testing the market for such a premium data service. Then Telkomsel president director Setyanto Hantoro said that, in the initial stage, 5G services would be made available in residential areas of Jakarta and South Tangerang given potentially high consumer demand for data services in those areas. The 5G service would be available in Alam Sutera and Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) in South Tangerang; Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) and Kelapa Gading in North Jakarta; as well as Pondok Indah and Kawasan Widya Chandra in South Jakarta, all of which are high-end residential areas.
“Our focus with the 5G deployment is to have an accessible digital solution for anyone. Soon, we will have several initiatives to develop our digital platform and services,” he said in a press statement on Thursday. The 5G network would also be available at Telkomsel Smart Office in Jakarta, the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Telkom University in West Java and Telkomsel’s branch offices in nine cities across the country. Technology providers have been pushing the government to roll out 5G, a technology that has made its way into the 2020-2024 National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN), even though local service providers have said the country has very few use cases for such high-speed connectivity at the moment.