There Is An Election In 2024, Telkom Boss Predicts Mobile Data Consumption To Increase By 10 Percent

President Director of Telkom Ririek (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - President Director of PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (TLKM), Ririek Adriansyah predicts that data mobile consumption will increase during the campaign period and the once-in-five-year democratic party, namely the 2024 General Election (Pemilu).

Ririek said the increase in mobile data consumption during the 2024 election is predicted to reach 10 percent compared to the normal period.

"My estimate will not be much different from Eid or Christmas New Year. Maybe around 10 percent of consumption increases," said Ririek at the Ngopi Together BUMN event, at the Ministry of SOEs, Jakarta, Thursday, October 26.

Furthermore, Ririek explained that the increase in mobile data consumption is common when community activities increase and are congested. For example, like on national religious holidays.

Even in the general election, it will also increase. Indeed, because there are many activities, people's communication, maybe later there will be campaign events, and so on, it will continue to rise," he explained.

Reporting from Telkom's official website, in 2022, Telkomsel as a subsidiary of Telkom posted revenue of IDR 89.04 trillion or grew 1.8 percent from the same period last year. Digital Business is a contributor to performance growth with a contribution of 81.9 percent of total revenue.

This segment grew positively 6.9 percent year on year (YoY) to Rp72.93 trillion compared to the same period in 2021. Telkomsel serves 156.8 million subscribers with payload data growing positively to 18.7 percent YoY to 16,426,853 TB and payload consumption touching 11,962 MB per data service user or growing 16.1 percent YoY.

As an effort to improve the quality of mobile services as well as provide the best digital experience for customers, Telkomsel also officially won the 2.1GHz frequency auction from the Ministry of Communication and Information in November 2022.

Meanwhile, Telkomsel's investment in GoTo also produces a fairly good synergy value for companies, including the integration of MyTelkomsel and GoPay to improve user experience in the use of digital products, integration of Telkomsel MyAds services and the GoBiz platform to help digitize MSMEs, make it easier for Gojek partners to become Telkomsel reseller partners, and others.