President Director of PT TRG Rev. Trenggono Sakti, said he had buried an investment of no less than Rp 60 billion to set up factories in the area of Batam Industrial Park (BIP). Local assembly plant WiMAX devices that use the facilities owned by PT SiiX.
"We have entered into a contract with PT Siix. At this plant we have started to produce WiMAX devices, both the base station (BS) and the receiving device to the customer (CPE) in bulk," said Trenggono in Jakarta, Wednesday (28/10).
Trenggono Depkominfo official release party of departure, the winning bidder and the operators of broadband wireless access (BWA) to Batam. They saw the manufacture of WiMAX devices manufacturing facilities locally owned TRG, ranging from hardware design, PCB layout, mecanical design, both for BS and CPE. While software development is designed in a research center in Rancaekek TRG PT, Bandung.
Vice President of Manufacturing PT TRG placed in PT Siix Hardiono Kertadjaja said it is currently only set up one line and one shift to the production of WiMAX devices owned by PT TRG. Production capacity this year as much as 80 BS and CPE 4000 per month. In 2010, production capacity increased to 200 BS and CPE 10 thousand per month.
"This could be our production capacity levels at any time upon the request of PT TRG. We have 15 lines and can be expanded into three shifts. In fact, today we are ready to produce WiMAX devices with capacity of 2,000 TRG BS and hundreds of thousands of CPE per month," said him.
Director of PT Gatot Tetuko justify regarding Wimax TRG's production capacity. "The problem is, this new early stage. The demand of BWA operators have not been many. When we only meet the orders of PT Telkom and PT Lintasarta," said Billy.
In mid-2009, TRG WiMAX devices have been used Lintasarta for the Greater Jakarta area. In September, PT Telkom has decided TRG Wimax as the winning bidder for the deployment of WiMAX networks in Jadebotabek, West Java, Medan, Pekanbaru, Palembang and Kalimantan.
Executive of PT Telkom in the planning BWA Sigit Subiantoro confirmed it. Wimax TRG has passed the test team Develompment Research Center (formerly known as RisTI) Telkom.
"The plan, at this early stage we will be as many as 31 BS degrees and 460 CPE. This is for the replacement of 3.5 to 3.3 GHz frequency," said Sigit.According to Billy, PT TRG BS and CPE is ready to produce more to meet the needs of the winning bidder BWA. "We just say to the PT Siix and ask for additional shipping raw materials," he said.
In late July 2009, the government (Depkominfo) have decided the winning bidder BWA to provide high-speed Internet access services with WiMAX technology. There are eight companies that won tenders BWA in 15 zones. Each zone there are two operators, each operator gets a small 15 MHz at a frequency of 2.3 GHz.
The eight companies that are licensed BWA at a frequency of 2.3 GHz are PT Telkom, PT Indosat Mega Media, PT First Media, PT Berca Hardaya Perkasa, PT Internux, PT Comtronix, PT Consortium Wimax Indonesia and PT Jasnita. In addition there are several companies that has licensed BWA at a frequency of 3.5 GHz to 3.3 GHz frequency migrate to no later than September 2010. 3.3 GHz license owners that between PT Telkom, PT IM2 and PT Lintasarta.
BWA license owners, both at 2.3 and 3.3 GHz WiMAX network should be held starting in 2010. The government requires the use of WiMAX devices with at least 30% local content. Therefore, the choice is to use local products because most Wimax Wimax devices are 100% imported.
from:trgwimax.com