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XL to expand network to reach 95 percent of population by year-end
To achieve this goal, it has allocated up to 80 percent of its Rp 7.5 trillion (US$530 billion) in capital expenditure (capex) to strengthening the company's infrastructure.
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A pedestrian uses his smartphone while walking past an advertisement for one of Indonesia's top three mobile operators, XL Axiata, in Jakarta on Feb. 28.
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ublicly listed telecommunications operator PT XL Axiata is planning to reach 95 percent of Indonesia’s 260 million people by building and operating more base transceiver stations (BTS) across the country.
The company’s technology director, Yessie D. Yoseta, said XL Axiata had completed 90 percent of its planned network infrastructure development for 2019 in the first six months of the year by installing 19,000 new BTS, mostly in areas outside Java.
"We are supporting the government’s universal service obligation (USO) program by installing 250 4G BTS in 51 cities in East Nusa Tenggara, Maluku and Papua this year,” she said at a press conference on Thursday.
As of June, the operator, which is one of Indonesia's top three telecommunications firms, owned 127,257 BTS, of which 37,323 are for 4G, 53,260 for 3G and 36,674 for 2G.
XL, whose stocks ticker at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) is EXCL, plans to install 135,000 BTS in more than 440 cities by the end of this year in a bid to reach 95 percent of the country’s population.
To achieve this goal, it has allocated up to 80 percent of its Rp 7.5 trillion (US$530 billion) in capital expenditure (capex) to strengthening the company's infrastructure.
The company's network expansion will also use the backbone fiber optics cables of the Palapa Ring nationwide broadband network that have been installed in the western and middle parts of Indonesia, Yessie said.
