Cell Phone Service in Indonesia

Cell phone has become a need for many of indonesia people, maybe because of indonesia geographical that consists of archipelago. In 2005 there were 45 million people and at the end of 2007 there were 80 million cell phone user (antara). "This will growing fast in the future" they said. And now from president to taxi river, from children to grandpa has use cell phone. It also could see from number of service provider that operated cell phone system. As the private company even multinational company sees this opportunity, the service provider is also growing.

And these are the company that operated cell phone service in Indonesia (there are some company that provide different kind of system and SIM card)

1. Telkomsel

• Kartu Halo (GSM - Post paid)

• Simpati (GSM - Pre paid

• Telkomflexi (CDMA)

2. Exelcomindo

• Pro-XL (GSM)

3. Indosat

• Mentari (GSM - Pre paid)

• Matrix (GSM - Post paid)

• IM3 (GSM - Pre paid)

• StarOne (CDMA - Pre and post paid)

4. Bakrie Telecom

• Esia (CDMA)

5. Mobile-8

• Fren (CDMA - cell)

• Hepi (CDMA - fixed)

6. Natrindo

• Axis (GSM)
  

7. Hutchison Telecom

• 3 (GSM)

For more detail about each provider, the prices, coverage area, service, etc., just click on the link.