Indonesia Telco Tariff Wars, GSM and CDMA Cellular
With the advent of new interconnection plan from the Indonesian Government, mobile communication provider of Indonesia start offering new plan for their customer. While all of them has reduced basic tariffs, the competition for prepaid card still based from their promotion plan, as this writing May 1, 2008 the promotion plans was as follow. Telkomsel as incumbent provider extended their flagship Simpati prepaid card promotion " Simpati Pede" focused on voice call between telkomsel subscibers (on-net) with Rp. 25 per second for the first 60 second and Rp. 0.5 per second for another 4 minutes and the scheme repeats every 5 minutes, voice call to other provider subsribers ( off-net ) is fixed at Rp. 10 per seconds. For Kartu As prepaid card active promotion for voice call is "Setelah 2 Menit Gratis 3 menit" (Get 3 minutes Free for Every 2 minutes Call) with Rp. 20 per second for voice call on-net and Rp. 30 per second off-net rate, every 2 minutes usage gets 3 free