Indonesia's Telkomsel expects to win 7 million new subscribers in 2007

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JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesian mobile phone service provider PT Telkomsel -- a subsidiary of state-owned firm Telkom -- expects to gain seven million new customers next year, the company president has said. "Industry-wide, there would be about 10 to 15 million new cellular phone subscribers next year.

We expect to get seven million of that (number)," Telkomsel president Kiskenda Suriahardja said Tuesday. Telkomsel, 35 percent owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, is Indonesia's largest mobile service provider with more than 50 percent of the domestic market. Suriahardja said that the firm aimed "to raise its total subscriber base to 41 million from a projected 34 million by the end of this year." In September, Telkomsel pioneered the country's third generation (3G) cellular...