2 posts tagged “telkom”
Just subscribed to a broadband wireless internet provider. So right now I have a 24 hours online connection like I used to have when I was in Germany (and Canada). Nice. Er... not really... Why?
Because I have to pay the same amount of money as in Germany and Canada but less - much less - connection speed. $20 for 512 kbps - shared with 10 others - and this is one of the cheapest deal in this country. $20. 512 kbps. Shared. 10 people. Imagine that.
I have a vague idea about why the price of Internet connection is freaking high in this miserable country.The government and it's partner in crime - that corrupted bloated monopolistic telecomunication company aka. PT. Telkom Indonesia - are the guilty party, especially the Ministry of Information and Communication who are too afraid to speak loud to PT. Telkom to lower the connection price - - yes, imagine a government entity feel afraid to a government owned private company, pathetic eh?. But that's what happened here. Instead of doing some action against PT. Telkom, the Minister of Information and Communication was giving promise, promise and promise that he will do something about it... It's been a while, Sir... Where is the good news?
Anyway, I am just curious. Most of the country I'd been visited were selling "Mega bits per second". So which country - other than mine - are still selling connection service speed in "kilo bits per second"? Please, let me know. Thanks!
Well, at least I have a 24 hours affordable connection now. It's not fast but it's decent and it's only $20.
I wrote this entry while drinking a nice cup of frozen tea at a cafe in Pondok Indah Mall 2, thanks to the free wifi connection available here. Places with free wifi are slowly becoming common place in Jakarta and some big cities - Bandung is one of the best example with its growing free wifi courtesy of Melsa.
FYI, internet access in Jakarta, Indonesia in general, is crap. And I think Indonesia is one of few countries which still offered internet speed in kbps with the price of MBps (384kbps - unlimited for $200 a month? yeah rite). So the growth of free wifi is a nice thing to have and hopefully, the growth wouldn't stop because of some, happened all the time in this country, stupid regulations. Of course, lowering the internet access price will be the best solution for everybody... well, except that opportunistic monopolistic corrupt telecommunication government-owned company which I will not write its name here - shame on you.
