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February 7, 2005
TELKOM INDONESIA SELECTS SMARTNER FOR ALWAYS-ON MOBILE EMAIL TO ITS ENTERPRISE AND INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS
Smartner’s Solution will Enable over 50 000 Telkom, Telkomsel and Telkom Flexi Customers to Instantly Access Email and Calendar from their Preferred Mobile Devices
Jakarta, Indonesia and Helsinki, Finland - PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk or Telkom Indonesia (NYSE : TLK; LSE: TKIA; JSX: TLKM) , one of the largest providers of telecommunications services in South-East Asia, has selected Smartner’s Always-On Mail to mobilise its customers with email and calendar. Telkom will be hosting the end-to-end service in their Indonesia Internet Data Center (IDC) for Always-On Mail. The new service is branded as Ventus and it is already available for purchase. As part of the agreement, Smartner will also offer its solution to Telkom Indonesia’s affiliates, Telkomsel (the main GSM operator in the country) as well as Telkom Indonesia’s own CDMA product, Telkom Flexi.
Smartner’s device independent solution delivers all the benefits of real-time desktop messaging to the mobile devices with a very comfortable user experience. It automatically pushes Email and Calendar to standard mobile devices instantly mirroring changes to the desktop and vice-versa. In addition, it enables viewing, editing and sending of native attachments.
"For the first year in operation, we target to have at least 5000 users both for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino Server environment. And we believe that working together with Smartner and Microsoft as our technology partner can make push email service in Indonesia a major driver of Mobile and Internet-Multimedia business”, says Suryatin Setiawan, Director of Telecommunications Services Business at Telkom Indonesia. "Even though there is another push email provider in Indonesia, VENTUS, which has more open platform for devices, can attract more customer to sign up for the service since they don’t have to change their existing numbers and devices," he adds at the current soft launch on January 31, 2005 at Nikko Hotel Jakarta attended by potential corporate customers and the press.
Kristiono, CEO of Telkom Indonesia, says, "VENTUS answers the need for converged service between mobile and multimedia-internet. This kind of service can put Telkom Indonesia ahead of the competition in the region and shows the commitment of the company to meet our customers’ expectations for fast growing mobile-multimedia services”
Paul Hedman, CEO of Smartner says, "Smartner is committed to building a strong presence in the Asian market and the partnership with Telkom Indonesia is a very important step towards that commitment. We are very proud to bring together with Telkom Indonesia our award-winning solution to one of the largest markets for smartphones in South-East Asia. Always-on Mail keeps people connected to email and calendar data through their preferred mobile device very cost efficiently. We strongly believe this is the solution Indonesian customers need right now."
Smartner Always-On Mail extends access to email and calendar to smartphones and connected PDAs with real-time push technology. For enterprise customers, Smartner Always-on Mail Enterprise Edition tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino and works with existing enterprise systems to enable secure mobile access to e-mail and calendar. For individual users, Smartner Always-On Mail Internet Edition enables access to ISP email accounts from the users’ preferred mobile device and without complicated procedures.
About Telkom Indonesia
Perusahaan Perseroan (Persero) P.T. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk. ("TELKOM" or the "Company"), a majority state-owned company, is the principal provider of fixed-line services in Indonesia. TELKOM’s objective is to become the leading full service and network provider in Indonesia through the provision of a wide range of information and communications (InfoCom) services. Telkom provides local and domestic, international direct telecommunications services, including fixed-wireline services, mobile, view (pay TV and cable TV), internet service and multimedia, and other corporate services both directly and through its subsidiaries. Currently, Telkom holds a majority ownership in PT Telekomunikasi Selular ("Telkomsel", 65.0%), PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi ("Dayamitra", 90.32%), PT Indonusa Telemedia ("Indonusa", 57.5%), PT Infomedia Nusantara ("Infomedia", 51.0%), PT Graha Sarana Duta ("GSD", 99.99%), PT Pramindo Ikat Nusantara ("Pramindo", 100.0%), PT Multimedia Nusantara ("Metra", 100%), PT AriaWest International ("AriaWest", 100%), PT Napsindo Primatel Internasional ("Napsindo", 60%) and PT Pro Infokom Indonesia ("PII", 51%). Telkom also holds ownership in other association companies.
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