Dialing for Dollars

Alongside long-time monopoly Telkom, Indosat now has a regular telephone operator. Competition favoring consumers is expected to grow.

August 6, 2002

Are you disappointed by phone calls that don't get through? Have you been trying to become a subscriber but can't get your application properly handled? Such problems can perhaps soon be overcome, now that the government has granted PT Indosat a regular telephone-operating license.

Or does this mean PT Telkom's monopoly in telecommunications will turn into a simple duopoly and that irate consumers will simply be shifting from one operator to

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