Indonesia’s top 3 carriers (Telkomsel, XL, Indosat) today announced strategic partnership involving their electronic money transfer platform. XL Tunai, Dompetku Indosat and Telkomsel TCash announced their integrated partnership that will enable consumer to send money via SMS throughout the 3 networks.
In case you haven’t noticed, Tempo Media Group has recently launched its digital store for back issues of its collections of magazines, daily newspapers, photos, books, and research papers published by the group, and any digital asset that the group has produced over the years. The store also acts as a reseller for partners of the group who wish to sell their own digital items.
The use of certain domain names evidently has an effect to a number of Indonesian businesses across different fields. Lately Indonesia’s .id domain has been discussed among circles in negative light as business owners feel that companies with .id domain names are less favorable than those with .com domains.
As we’ve written before, YouTube has finally launched its paid subscription service today. YouTube will eventually implement a subscription cost to a number of its channels which may well be the new way for people to enjoy more content on top of the billions of existing YouTube videos.
Short message service and telephone are slowly being pushed off from the home screens of smartphone consumers who increasingly rely on mobile communications applications which use data services. Telkomsel, which has begun to feel the effects of this market trend on its revenue has initiated a number of ways to overcome this issue, one of which is by announcing Teman Dev which will be launched in June.
Antara news agency reports that the Minsitry for Communications and Informatics (Kemkominfo) is insisting that electronic service providers must locate their data centers in Indonesia. This is in regards to government regulation (PP) 82/2012, Electronic Systems and Transactions Organizer.
