I am back again in Indonesia, this time I get to go to Bina Nusantara university and Mobile Monday Jakarta.
It’s great to be back, staying in the same hotel, going to the Senayan malls. And it’s nice to be practising bahasa again. I think my bahasa is getting really rusty, i am so lost of words, but this time I remember to use ‘beda’ instead of ‘beza’ and ‘bisa’ instead of ‘boleh’
There are a few observation that I took home, in regards to the mobile scene.
Berries are MASSIVE.
Everyone loves blackberry here. No one loves iPhone, not yet at least.
iPhone officially launches today, but i see no love and no
anticipation for iPhone.
Mobile broadband is CHEAP
Bigboy Indosat charges 1 rupiah per 1 kbps (5 nok for 10 mbps) and
some newboys like SMART and AXIS are trying to beat this pricing. So,
broadband is cheap amd mobile browsing is lovely.
ARPU is low low low
It probably averages out at USD4 per user monthly. This is because with 10
telcos, everyone is killing everyone else.
Post MoMo event, the Opera guys
More stuff on Opera’s university tour blog
Hi Zibin, you seems like look a bit familiar. Do you recognize me?
Which Angus are you? The one from Indonesia? :-)
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Nope, i am from KL, Malaysia. Think we met in some OSS or Sec conference. Maybe HITB or OSS.
Hi Angus, I remember you. You are the guy from CHS right, the one that has an awesome blog
感觉 blackberry很棒，你可以考虑。
This is because with 10 telcos, everyone is killing everyone else.
probably would pop up in china on my grandson’s generation.
Is Opera ever gonna make an app for iPhone?
With all the goodies of the desktop version.
Good question, we don’t know yet, let’s see.
How’s the scene like over there, monopoly by china mobile and china unicom?