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Telecom
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Telkomsel Trials Facial Recognition for Prepaid SIM Registration

This makes Telkomsel the second telecom company in the country to adopt this biometric technology. On Friday, Telkomsel announced that it is trialing facial recognition in its customer service portal, GraPARI Online, and the MyGraPARI app. The facial scan…

Japan Retail
Telecom
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Japan’s NETSTARS joins Singtel’s VIA alliance

Singtel‘s cross-border mobile payments alliance VIA has expanded into Japan through a partnership with Tokyo-bassed mobile payment technology NETSTARS. The addition of NETSTARS to the alliance will add 100,000 stores to the network’s current 1.6 million…

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Telecom
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Telkomsel to adopt Kinetica analytics platform

Indonesia’s Telkomsel has arranged to adopt the Kinetica advanced analytics platform to help it transform the customer experience for its users. The operator will use the Kinetica engine and NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to enable real-time…

Telkomsel Lounge
Telecom
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Sigma Systems Supports Telkomsel in Building a Digital Indonesia

With more than 190 million customers, Telkomsel is currently the largest mobile operator in Indonesia. Telkomsel has consistently implemented the latest mobile technology and was the first to commercially launch 4G LTE mobile services in the country. Entering…

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Telecom
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Telkomsel can do a much better Customer Support Job!

Indonesia’s telecom companies must vastly improve their customer service, the regulator has warned, after revealing that some providers had deliberately made their service worse in 2017. The likes of Telkomsel, Indosat and XL “dominate the list of worst-rated…

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Telecom
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Telkomsel wins 2.3-GHz spectrum auction

Indonesian state-owned mobile operator Telkomsel has emerged as the winner of an auction for 30 MHz of 2.3-GHz spectrum with a bid of 1 trillion rupiah ($73.9 million). The company beat out four other operators, including XL Axiata and Indosat, to secure the…

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Telecom
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Telkomsel trials FDD-LTE Massive MIMO

Indonesia’s Telkomsel has completed Indonesia’s first FDD-LTE massive multiple input multiple output (Massive MIMO) field trial in collaboration with ZTE. The achieved a nearly four-fold increase in data throughput compared to existing 2×2 MIMO FDD-LTE…

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Telecom
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Telkomsel demonstrates FDD Massive MIMO

Indonesia’s Telkomsel has completed the market’s first FDD Massive MIMO demonstration as part of its 5G evolution roadmap. The operator teamed up with Huawei to conduct the demonstration, which achieved five times the capacity of traditional FDD LTE 2×2 MIMO.…

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Telecom
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Singtel, Telkomsel to Launch Mobile Remittance Service in Indonesia

Singapore Telecommunications, known as Singtel, is partnering with Indonesian operator Telkomsel to launch a real-time mobile remittance service in Indonesia, to boost its mobile money initiatives and tap into the relatively unbanked market in that country.…

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Telecom
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Singtel, Telkomsel enter mobile money alliance

Singapore’s Singtel and Indonesia’s Telkomsel have teamed up to launch a real-time mobile remittance service to Indonesia. The new service is being offered by SingCash under the Singtel Dash brand. It will allow customers in Singapore to send money to the…

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Telecom
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Telkomsel’s LTE footprint reaches 100 cities

The company has to date deployed more than 4,500 base stations in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, and Papua. According to the operator, 4G subscriber take up is strong. The company has around 5 million 4G subscribers, and is aiming…