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Telkomsel, Opera’s preferred partner in Indonesia

Budi Putra — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:31:43 +0000

Opera Software and Indonesia’s biggest network provider, Telkomsel, announced their partnership to deliver Opera Mini to 82 million customers. Both will distribute an optimized version of Opera Mini 5 which include some tweaks to the toolbar, billing integration and home page-content.

The operator also offers their customers a new Opera Mini data plan to make mobile browsing more cost efficient. “Working with Telkomsel is a very significant step for Opera, as it gives us great headway into the Indonesian market,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software.

Indonesia represents one of Opera Mini’s largest user bases, ranking second in usage worldwide.

[via Gajeto]

Nokia and Telkomsel to launch Nokia Messaging for Indonesian consumers

Kim Poh Liaw — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:33:00 +0000

Telkomsel and Nokia today announced their collaboration to offer the Nokia Messaging service, which will be commercially available to Telkomsel subscribers from 26 December 2009 onwards. Telkomsel is the first operator in Indonesia to commercially launch this service which will allow users to enjoy easy access to mobile email on their Nokia devices. Telkomsel is also the first operator worldwide to offer Nokia Messaging for Instant Messaging to prepaid consumers.

“As the best and leading mobile lifestyle and solutions provider in the region, we always aim to deliver the best service to all of our customers. We have demonstrated our strong commitment to offering innovative mobile email solutions and are proud to be the first to deliver Nokia Messaging to the Indonesia market and the first to provide prepaid charging for Nokia Messaging’s IM service to meet our consumers’ needs,” said Rachel Goh, Telkomsel’s Vice President of Product Lifecycle Management.

Nokia Messaging is an easy to set-up and easy to use push email service which allows user to mobilize up to ten personal email accounts on one device. Nokia Messaging supports all leading consumer email solutions, such as Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail as well as local email service providers. The user can read, send, smart forward, reply to emails, download, read and attach files directly on their mobile phone. Push email technology ensures fast delivery of email to the mobile phone as soon as the email arrives on the email server. Nokia Messaging also allows you to mobilize your IM accounts to enable users to chat with your friends conveniently.

Nokia Messaging service is supported on a wide range of Nokia devices, including the Nokia E71, Nokia E63 and Nokia E52. The service also comes onboard in the new Nokia E72 and Nokia E75.

Telkomsel and Research In Motion Announce the Availability of a Prepaid Solution for BlackBerry Internet Service in Indonesia

Kim Poh Liaw — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:52:52 +0000

Telkomsel and Research In Motion announced the availability of a new prepaid option for BlackBerry Internet Service in Indonesia. The new offering from Telkomsel allows customers to activate BlackBerry Internet Service easily and conveniently via short messaging service (SMS) and their service is automatically disabled if there is insufficient credit in their account. The prepaid BlackBerry Internet Service from Telkomsel is available via an unlimited package with a tariff of Rp/ 180,000 per month.

BlackBerry Internet Service is designed for smaller businesses and individuals. It allows customers to access up to 10 supported corporate and personal email accounts (including popular ISP email accounts such as, Yahoo! Mail and Google Mail) from a single device.

“In line with Telkomsel’s strategy to provide users with quality and timely services, we are proud to partner with RIM to deliver BlackBerry Internet Service with a prepaid option to our customers,” said Hendri Mulya Sjam, Vice President Marketing and Corporate Relationship Management, Telkomsel. “By leveraging our relationship with RIM and our industry experience in the Indonesian market, we can now offer an alternative to enable more business professionals to easily increase efficiency with wireless access to email, phone, organizer and browser functions, as well as other mobile applications, on BlackBerry smartphones.”