The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 10/24/2009 7:32 PM
New Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring pledged on Saturday to provide phone connections to 25,000 remote villages in his first 100 days in office.
“Our target is reaching the 25,000 villages by phone in the coming three months,” Tifatul said on the sidelines of a blogger community get-together in Jakarta.
He said the government was working hard to meet the Universal Service Obligation (USO) standard, which includes phone connections in villages.
“In accordance with the USO, we have to build telephone lines in 32,874 villages. The President has asked me to set up phone connection in 25,000 outlying villages within the next three months,” Tifatul said.
State telecommunication company PT Telkom has managed to fulfill 46 percent of requests for fixed phone lines.
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