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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Huawei Complete Consolidation of Large-Scale

PS Core Serving Hundreds of Millions of Indonesian Users

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, one initiative, we believe we can consistently
of Indonesia's leading telcos, in deliver a marvelous experience to our
cooperation with global ICT solution customers while paving the way towards
provider Huawei, has finalized a large our mission of connecting and empowering
core network consolidation project in every Indonesian." George Gao, President
Jakarta. The completion of this work of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product
represents a milestone in their extensive Line, said: "Thanks to our close and in-
cooperation and further propels Indosat's depth cooperation, we are very pleased to
advancement and innovation in mobile witness a great achievement in completing
communication technologies. This project, such a large-scale and complex network
that covers more than 100 million users, consolidation in a short period of time.
was delivered within 14 months only, and Huawei will continuously support
is the first of its kind in the world. The Indosat to enhance network connectivity,
project significantly improves the network accelerate service innovation, and create
experience of Indosat's users across industry value in digital transformation, of 5G core networks. The dual-engine
Indonesia, especially those living in rural achieving greater business success." The container solution leverages cutting-
and remote areas. For instance, residents project is a testament of both parties' edge technologies to manage both virtual
of Kalimantan will enjoy a faster average technological strengths, hard work, machines (VMs) and containers in a unified
downlink speed of 15% while the average courage, determination, as well as team infrastructure platform, that enables
round trip time (RTT) will be reduced by spirit, in tackling a multitude of challenges. Indosat seamlessly introduce containers
11% for Facebook usage. Meanwhile, The teams defined key indicators for through capacity expansion, significantly
according to data from Opensignal, measuring network performance, user reducing the time needed for service rollout
residents of Central Java are already experience based on data analysis and and reducing the time-to-market (TTM).
experiencing a 3.4% better performance test results. In addition, they formulated In the intelligent and digital era, Indosat
while using the Internet for games and detailed operations and emergency has also increased its requirements for
7.2% for live videos. Desmond Cheung, plans to ensure operation precision and intelligence and ultra experience. Both
Director and Chief Technology Officer of efficiency, network stability, as well as Indosat and Huawei have collaborated to
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, said: "We're service continuity across 26 PS Core deploy future-proof core networks that can
humbled to create another benchmark locations across Indonesia. By adopting adapt to the 5G-A intelligent and hyper-
for the telecommunications industry. The the leading telco cloud-native technology, distributed architecture. It meets current
core network consolidation project is a Indosat and Huawei commercialize both network needs and furthermore, paves the
testament to our commitment to delivering bare metal container and innovative way for introducing 5G new features and
a world-class digital experience to our dual-engine container solution, which services increasingly diversified for toC
customers. With the completion of this supports large-scale commercial use and toB users.

Starlink to Bring Its Satellite Service to Other US Carriers

Starlink, the satellite network from Elon two rockets up from the coasts of Florida to the USA. But after the first year, you will
Musk’s SpaceX, has been working exclu- and California. With those missions, they gain reliable connectivity for calls, texts,
sively with T-Mobile for a long time to offer added 26 new satellites to the Direct to Cell and data if you are in rural or remote loca-
Direct to Cell satellite connectivity. But program, bringing the total number to 168. tions. You should also expect emergency
that’s about to change. SpaceX CEO Elon It's huge news for every T-Mobile customer services. To be clear, that's happening in
Musk said that while Starlink’s satellite because it means that by the end of the 2025 and it all depends on approval from
connectivity is currently limited to T-Mo- year, dead zones in the U.S. should be a each country’s government. The company
bile users in the USA, the service will soon thing of the past. Wherever you are, you plans to expand globally and partner with
be available to customers of other carriers. will have cell coverage, even in the most one carrier per country and eventually ex-
After the partnership ends, they plan to ex- remote spots. Starlink direct to mobile tend all carriers. Frankly, it makes much
pand to other carriers and broaden access phone Internet is exclusively with @Tmo- more sense this way. With a large-scale
to it. A few days ago, SpaceX's Senior Di- bile in the US for the first year, then other project like this, you want to take your time
rector Ben Longmier shared his excitement carriers thereafter. In response to his post, and ensure everything goes smoothly. One
on X about how the company pulled off a Elon Musk wrote that Starlink's Direct to carrier per country allows them to fix is-
double launch. They succeeded in sending Cell satellite service is currently restricted sues as they pop up and manage costs.
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