Satellite Palapa Ring

Palapa Ring is a development megaproyek fiber optic backbone of the international ring consists of 7 covers 33 provinces and 460 districts in KTI.

Project that costs about 225 million U.S. dollars that consists of 35,280 km Submarine fiber optic cable and 21,708 km fiber optic down
land (Inland cable).

Each ring will continue to access the frequency band width from one point to another point in each district. Access network will support the wide-band fiber optic high-speed 300 Gbps with capacity up to 1,000 Gbps in the area.

Previously, when megaproyek is still in the planning stage of development, exchange rate of rupiah against the U.S. dollar is still in the range of Rp 9000. Now, since the crisis hit, the dollar was Rp 12,000.

This condition will not be improved this year, Barclay's financial institutions research predicts, the U.S. dollar will rebound to Rp 15,500, September 2009
future.

Initially the project will be built in six companies, which then form a consortium. The six companies that keikutsertaannya following percentages are PT Bakrie Telecom Tbk (13.3 percent), PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk (13.3 percent), PT Indosat Tbk (13.3 percent), PT Elektrindo Information (including PT Mobile-8 Telecom Tbk of 6.3 percent), PT Powertek Main Internusa (Worldwide Ltd Linbrooke representation of 10 percent), and the remaining portion is taken most of PT Telkom.

However, in the last two companies, namely Information and Elektrindo Powertek Main Internusa, and then resign so that leaving four telecommunication operators are working on the project.

Pullback two companies made the project value is reduced to U.S. $ 180 million (Telkom U.S. $ 90 million, and XL, Indosat, Bakrie Telecom, each with U.S. $ 30 million). Finally, the coming economic crisis makes the value of the project back terdepresiasi be 150 million U.S. dollars as the rupiah weakened.

There is no solution that can be offered IM consortium over wallop telak this insistently. "We need to observe sea cable prices, exchange rates, and the value
business first. There's a new report to our parent companies of each, "said Tonda's only so.