Jakarta, 22 August 2016 – CEO of CFU WIB, Honesti Basyir received the Telin Application Service License from Telin President Director Faizal R. Djoemadi at Grha Merah Putih Building (GMP) on Monday (8/22/2016). Also participating in the licensing are Telin Marketing and Sales Director, Budi Satria Dharma Purba and Telin Myanmar Country Manager, Doddi R. Nugroho and Senior Leaders in Directorate of WINS.
“I congratulate Telin Myanmar who has obtained Application Service License from the Minister of Communication of Myanmar. The new round of Telin Myanmar has begun, with this license expected Telin Myanmar can soon expand its business. To Telin Head Quarter to continue to provide support for Telin Myanmar in accordance with its business portfolio ", said Honesti in his introduction.
As it is known that on Friday, August 19, 2016 ago Telin Myanmar has successfully obtained the Application Service (US) license from the government of Myanmar. The license was awarded by U Kyi Zaw Htoo as representative of Director General (DG) Posts and Telecommunications Department (PTD) Ministry of Transport and Communications of Myanmar to Country Manager Telin Myanmar, Doddi R. Nugroho accompanied by Deputy Country Manager Telin Myanmar, Kristian W. Ari in the License Department of Ministry of Transport and Communications, Naypyitaw, Myanmar.
Armed with these licenses, Telin Myanmar is currently allowed to expand its business such as ISP, Data Center, Cloud and VAS Provider. In addition, Telin Myanmar portfolio is indeed planning to enter the enterprise market and B2B.
It is expected that with the support of all Telin's line-ups the Solid-Speed-Smart spirit can further advance the international business expansion in Myanmar. “Target market in Myanmar is still very wide with a total population of about 54 million people internet penetration rate is still 2.6%. This makes Telin Myanmar have a chance to grow the business ", said Doddi.
The acquisition of the US license makes Telin Myanmar increasingly challenged to realize business in a country famous for its very high challenge infrastructur such as Myanmar. Especially in this time have got commitment JAPFA customer of Myanmar, which for the last 6 months has been trying to get domestic connectivity and internet sufficient to run SAP office application and its collaboration tool, but not yet realized.
“Hearing that Telin Myanmar is licensed soon, JAPFA Managing Director of Myanmar, Mark Gerald Eman immediately stated his commitment to prioritize using the services of Telin Myanmar, for connectivity needs 6 nodes of JAPFA location in Myanmar and internet bandwidth capacity of at least 10Mbps ", he explained.
According to Doddi, although Gerald generally knows that connectivity in Myanmar is still very difficult to obtain and very expensive compared to similar services in Indonesia. Counted 3 Indonesian enterprises of a total of 10 entities residing in Myanmar have declared their commitment to Telin. This makes the challenge for the service delivery team to 'Go Live' as soon as possible.
“In addition to the monopoly challenge, regulation and infrastructure availability, it is worth noting that the Mean Time To Install (MTTI) of all ISPs in Myanmar is the fastest average at two months and non-guarantee, "explained Doddi.
In the first punch directive dated August 1, 2016 and then, President Director of Telin, Faizal R. Djoemadi stressed that Telin Myanmar should start thinking not to stop licensing. But quick win after the license is obtained is the main thing to do so that Telin Myanmar immediately build a new business besides wholesale IP Transit so far.