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ops system, this apps is 100% of Indonesian made, with full support of the Marine & Research Observation Center on marine data required by the fishermen. The aspects of information within the Laut Nusantara Apps are mostly needed by small fishermen, which include catchment areas, fishing availability at ports, to weather conditions at sea.
2019
• XL Axiata together with Vocus Group and Alcatel Submarine Networks have successfully completed the Australia-Indonesia-Singapore cable communication system (SKKL) development project. The development project that began in December 2017 was completed in the third quarter of 2018, immediately utilized in October 2018 and run commercially in early 2019.
• Continued capacity expansion. XL Axiata focus on coverage and capacity expansion has led
to XL Axiata’s BTS count rising to more than 130,000 BTS with more than 40,000 4G BTS. XL Axiata increased focus in ex-Java investment and also invest in fiberisation of its network to handle rising data network. XL Axiata began serving the community in the Province of
East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) by expanding the reach of quality data services in the province; XL Axiata activates the 4G LTE network in Anambas Islands, Riau Islands. By utilizing the Western Palapa Ring backbone network, XL Axiata realized its commitment to serve the people of Indonesia to remote areas, including the outermost islands that entered the South China Sea region; XL Axiata continues to
build 4G LTE data networks in Kalimantan;
XL Axiata continues to improve the quality of data services in all its service areas, including Sulawesi.
• Princeton Digital Group (PDG), investor, developer and operator of internet infrastructure based in Singapore supported
by Warburg Pincus, has reached an agreement to acquire a 70% ownership in the XL Axiata Data Center service business portfolio. XL Axiata has five high-quality Data Centers spread all over Indonesia. The Associate created for
the partnership, called the Princeton Digital Group Data Centers, will support the strategic existence of PDG in Indonesia as the largest digital economy in Southeast Asia by 2025. This company will become a Data Center operator with significant growth capability to serve
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The Minister of Communication and Informatics Rudiantara and Minister of Industrial Affairs Airlangga Hartarto with XL Axiata President Director Dian Siswarini inaugurated the IoT Lab called X-CAMP in Jakarta. This Lab will become a meeting forum for all stakeholders to jointly develop the IoT ecosystem in Indonesia from idea generation to business implementation.
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XL Axiata continues to finalize preparations 5G service in the future. Various preparations have been carried out since the last two years, especially in preparing the supporting ecosystem. One of them
is to prepare a large capacity data network by doing fiberisation throughout the network. XL Axiata continues to strengthen the ecosystem and utilize the development potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) business solutions to meet the Industrial 4.0 era. One of the efforts is by commercially launching the Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) technology network in 31 cities/districts in Indonesia.
XL Axiata will continue to develop telecommunications and data networks in remote areas through the USO (Universal Service Obligation) scheme in 2019. Network development that focuses on remote areas as a company support to
the government in the distribution and provision of telecommunications services in areas that have not yet been reached by telecommunications and data services, which is also in line with XL Axiata’s plan to continue to develop network infrastructure to areas outside Java. This year’s USO network development by XL Axiata includes 289 points in various provinces which are mostly included in Eastern Indonesia, including in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
XL Axiata continues to try to reach the corners of the country so that they can participate in national development. At
the end of 2019, three more USO BTSs will start operating in several remote areas, namely Natuna in Riau Islands Province, Musi Rawas in South Sumatra, and West Coast in Lampung.
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