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HeldNews.com -JAKARTA - The Government considers need to lower interconnection charges. After going through a long discussion, the government also issued a list of the new interconnection fees that the average decline.
According to government hypothesis, antaroperator call rates tend to be still high if compared to same operator call rates. This is because the interconnection fees that are not up-to-date (over price).
In addition, further information Postel-party, off-net call rates are used to download the subsidy rate on-net calls (same operator), so the effective price is the overall average rate off-net calls and calls on-net tariffs.
"In its implementation in 2011, interconnection charges are not fully carried out, namely to continue using the existing interconnection charges for the PSTN network (PT Telkom) and local interconnection charges from PSTN to FWA to prevent retail rate increase. In addition, the pattern is not paid on SMS between operators will be retained pending conducted intensive studies on the implementation of the pattern of pay-in SMS, "said Head of Information and Public Relations Kemkominfo, Gatot S Dewabroto, in his official statement, the official website Postel, Friday (31/12/2010).
Therefore, continued Billy, the government decided to lower the interconnection tariffs with different percentages. However, for interconnection charges which fell an average of 6 percent indicated that price over there, although not significant due to the total traffic is unlikely to change.
"Voice and SMS traffic does tend to decline but is compensated by the increase of data traffic, so the total traffic tends not to change," wrote Bill.
In addition, he continued, off-net tariff subsidies to the tariff on-net can be said to occur due to tariffs still below cost on-net calls. This pattern also occurs due to the pattern of competition and investment schemes yanng encourage operators to implement tariff revenues per customer-oriented rather than based on cost.
"This decrease corresponds to the cost of its provision, and can be implemented to maintain the continuity of investment in the telecommunications industry and to encourage the operators to focus more on development and broadband data services in accordance with the trend lately," he explained.
According to Billy, the use of higher data services trends, in line with the accelerated development of the broadband industry that helped influence to encourage economic growth in Indonesia, compared to voice services and SMS.
"With the implementation of 2011 internokeksi this will make the cost of interconnection Indonesia is relatively still below the average cost of interconnection in the Asia Pacific region and far below the average of interconnection in over 140 countries around the world as it has been published by the ITU. Even if Indonesia still higher costs average interconnection, because the geographic factor Indonesia a much more extensive and require a connection connection and komplikated much longer than some other Asia Pacific countries, "he said.
In the list terseut almost all interconnection costs down. Some of the costs of interconnection has not changed is the local fixed termination charges to fixed approximately 73 per minute, and local termination charges Fixed Wireless Line (FWL) to Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) with the same magnitude. While the SMS termination charges remain unchanged even with the pattern of sender keeps all (SKA), until there is an evaluation of the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body (BRTI).
This new interconnection costs will begin to apply from 1 January 2011, except for the application of the FWA network interconnection fee that will be implemented on 1 July 2011. (Srn)