At the time of the contract signing, Telkom was represented by Director of Enterprise & Wholesale Arief Yahya, while the government of Timor Leste was represented by Director of Procurement Services at Ministry of Planning & Finance Gregorio Ferreira da Silva. The signing was also witnessed by Timor-Leste’s Minister of Transportation & Telecommunications Inacio Moreira, Chief of Ministry Board Antoninho Bianco, President RTTL Expedito Dias Ximenes, and Ambasador of Indonesia for Timor-Leste Achmad Bey Sofwan.
According to Arief Yahya, the success of winning the contract is very meaningful for Telkom as the Infocom Flag Carrier of Indonesia. “Not because of the contract value, but the most important thing is the trust of Timor-Leste government to Telkom in participating for building telecommunications infrastructure in that country.” Said Arief.
Such winning all at once indicated the capability of Telkom to compete with telecommunications providers of other countries. Arief added that the trust dedicated to RTTL Tomor-Leste would not be meaningless. He expected the cooperation of leasing satellite transponder will open collaboration in other fields in Timor-Leste, the country having 15,007 square kilometers width and 1,040,880 inhabitants. “Telkom has adequately experienced in that region, consequently Telkom understand the situation and conditions of telecommunications in that country” Arief stated
The contract collaborated with Timor-Leste gave more opportunity for Telkom towards telecommunications business in the region. “ Such cooperation will be enhanced to other countries as well”, continued Arief.
Telkom owned Telkom-1 Satellite. It was launched in August 12, 1999 using Ariane 4 vehicle and occupied an orbit slot of 108E. Telkom 1 Satellite which had 36 transponder capacity was utilised to broadcast TelkomVision-Cable TV services.
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