Has Around 28,000 Towers, Mitratel Presents All Over The Country

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JAKARTA - PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Tbk (MTEL/Mitratel) has more than 28,000 telecommunication towers and 57 percent of them are located outside Java. Apart from that, Mitratel has also contributed to the blankspot Base Transceiver Station (BTS) construction program in Remote, Outermost, and Disadvantaged Areas (3T). Through the BTS 3T program, Mitratel reaches all corners of the country by building hundreds of telecommunication towers and dozens of backbone transmission towers.

According to Noorhayati Candrasuci, Business Director of Mitratel, the construction of BTS in the 3T blankspot area is an effort to distribute telecommunication services equally to all levels of society in collaboration with BAKTI. The BTS lastmile blankspot BAKTI program is implemented based on the Minister of Communication and Informatics Regulation number 25 of 2015 concerning the Implementation of the Universal Telecommunication and Informatics Service Obligation.

According to Candrasuci, the 3T BTS construction program is to provide telecommunication connectivity between regions in meeting the needs of the community to access telecommunication and data services fairly and equitably in the territory of the Republic of Indonesia.

He said Mitratel has built more than 516 border BTS sites throughout Indonesia. The largest number of sites carried out by Mitratel are in the Maluku and Papua regions, which are 364 sites or 70 percent of all sites that have been built by Mitratel.

In addition to its strategic role in border BTS, Mitratel has also played a role in the construction of more than 60 backbone transmission towers, particularly in Papua and Natuna. Mitratel has a wide range of services and a complete telecommunications business ecosystem, and has a strong national track record throughout Indonesia. Mitratel is committed to fully supporting economic equity and internet access to remote areas of the country.

The presence of Mitratel is expected to support the acceleration of the nation's digitalization in order to face the 5G era and realize the nation's ideals, which is to become one of the countries with the largest digital economy, especially in the Asia Pacific by 2025. In addition to managing telecommunication towers with more than 28,000 spread throughout Indonesia, Mitratel is also expanding its portfolio.

"The main business development is to maximize the telecommunications tower ecosystem in supporting the growth of digital infrastructure in the future, such as fiberization and utilization of telecommunication tower space for digital services," he concluded.