New Year, Operator Requested Increase Capacity

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology urged telecom operators to increase the capacity of cellular networks and the Internet, in order to anticipate the traffic increase on the eve of the new year of 2012 to 2013.

Increasing network capacity was held in celebration of the new year at locations throughout Indonesia, including the protocol all the way from Jl. MH. To Jl Thamrin. Sudirman, Jakarta, which is the location of the implementation of the Car Free Night.

"Anticipation is to be done, because that atmosphere is estimated there will be thousands of people who use telecommunication devices respectively to communicate with each other using social media and even thousands of people also ought to up load photos and videos directly on the spot," said Chief Center for Information and Public Relations Kemkominfo Gatot S Dewa Broto in a press release on Monday (12/31/2012).

He continued, in that situation, bandwidth requirements will increase sharply, and there is no other choice for telecommunications operators to anticipate well if do not want to be warned by the Ministry of Communication and the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body (BRTI), and also do not want to complain about the service users.

According to the interim report of the number of telecommunications carriers, several mobile operators existing mobile base stations placed at certain points around Jl. MH. Thamrin and Jl. Sudirman.