President Smartfren Telecom, Merza Fachys. (CNN Indonesia / Aditya Panji)
Jakarta, Indonesia - Smartfren telecommunications company Telecom states will hold 4G LTE service in 22 cities in Indonesia is, but is still awaiting completion of infrastructure development which will transmit radio signals to the customer device.
President Smartfren Telecom, Merza Fachys said it will hold in the city of 4G LTE first completed development of infrastructure
"Still waiting for the perfection of the signal. What city are ready first, we degree there," said Merza in a press conference in Jakarta, Friday (10/7).
One indicator of readiness to commercialize 4G LTE in a city, according to Merza, can be seen from the target where the number of base stations in the region. "Say we want in a city there are 100 base stations, so be it directly we launched," he continued.
Chief Brand Officer, Roberto Saputra added, other things become a sign of readiness in a 4G LTE signal coverage area is minimal has reached 85 percent.
"Do not want dong that title but it turns out the signal source like lingering. If my friends of other operators, 4G lost their signal back to 3G. If we CDMA, dead signals directly back to GSM and can not be used," said Roberto.
Smartfren have its first LTE 4G services in Batam on July 6, 2015 and take advantage of the 850 MHz spectrum. The company promises to expand high-speed Internet service in the second half of 2015.
In addition to the 850 MHz spectrum, a subsidiary of Sinar Mas is later also will utilize the 2.300 MHz spectrum if it has merampung migration frequency previously occupied 1.900 MHz.
Smartfren is the only operator who survive on CDMA technology. Telkom Flexi chose to divert to Telkomsel subscribers and frequency. Indosat chose to replace the CDMA technology with the E-GSM. While Esia cooperation network with Smartften and just be a provider.
Smartfren already started selling smart phones as well as some of the mobile Wi-Fi that supports 4G LTE some time ago at affordable prices to support the use of data on their network.
The company adopts a standard technology of data delivery FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) spectrum in the 850 MHz frequency that is used to reach a wider coverage, are also standard TDD (Time Division Duplex) spectrum in the 2.300 MHz to provide faster access to download.
(CNNIndonesia)
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