GROWTH in the telecommunications sector is meteoric. Today, nearly everyone has a telephone. In Indonesia, there are 170 million telephone numbers, of which nearly 95 percent are cellphone numbers. “Even my driver has two. He’s planning on buying a third,” said Sandiaga Uno, founder of Saratoga Capital, last week at his office.

It’s no wonder that the growth of telecommunications towers is just as fast. For example, Excelcomindo has 19,3