Indonesian have cheapest phone rates in asia

Telecommunication mobile phone tariffs in Indonesia in 2008 is the most affordable prices in Asia with only U.S. $ 0015 per minute.

"If the previous (2005) Indonesia in these categories in Asia after China, with the rate of U.S. $ 0.15 per minute, in 2008 became the country bertarif with the cheapest price of U.S. $ 0015 per minute," said Minister of Communications and Information Technology (Menkominfo), Mohammad Nuh , in Jakarta, Monday.

He said, government policies related to the affordability program tariff mobile phone that has international banking institutions appreciation, Deutche Bank.

Institutions in the newest report, said that mobile phone rates in Indonesia is the most affordable in Asia through the study after they did some time ago.

"3 We have a foundation that is related to the availability of coverage, affordability of the tariffs, and most importantly the quality," he said.

If two things, namely the availability and affordability, but quality is not met then the optimal customer satisfaction has not been reached. Thus in 2009, will emphasize the need for quality set.

He said, the government during the period 2006-2008 has been running the program with the related policy availability (availability), affordability.

And result in the mobile world now appear much earlier if these se-Asia has become bargains. Not only that, in the world of mobile phone, when in 2005 the number of new customers reached 46,912,118, and in 2008 was through customer number 124865871.

Appropriate logic, if the prices go down, then the benefits will be reduced also. However, due to the increased number of subscribers reaching more than 200%, then seems to have occurred anomaly related to the level of earnings of the operator.

"Even though rates go down but it is interesting that EBITDA above 60%, that's incredible," he said.

At the 2005 earning before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) or net profit added back the interest expense, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the mobile operator reached 65.5%, now down to only slightly 61.6%. That is, despite a decline in prices, a decrease in EBITDA is not too significant.

In 2010, he said, Indonesia will enter the second phase development of the ICT costumize services where the telephone service providers and ICT can provide a specific service to the community.

"So many more needs that are unique to the community can be met," he said.