Forecasting broadband users in Indonesia/ Peramalan pengguna pitalebar di Indonesia

Type Journal Article - Buletin Pos dan Telekomunikasi
Title Forecasting broadband users in Indonesia/ Peramalan pengguna pitalebar di Indonesia
Author(s)
Volume 14
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
Page numbers 23-38
URL http://www.online.bpostel.com/index.php/bpostel/article/viewFile/140103/248
Abstract
Indonesia has a tremendous opportunity to implement the potential of broadband, as Indonesia has a population of 253 million people and 88.1 million Internet users in 2014. On the other hand, the communication sector (one of them including telecommunications) is the only sector that is consistently contributed to the growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as many as two numbers (double-digit). Then the important role of government is always anticipating in arranging telecommunications regulation, one of them is accelerating the deployment of broadband infrastructure, such as issuing Presidential Regulation Number 96 Year 2014 on Indonesian Broadband Plan 2014 - 2019. In fact, the development of broadband network in Indonesia is still carried out in major cities, considering the telecommunications users are mostly located in large cities. In addition, handset devices or mobile phones, the availability on the market is still limited and the price is still expensive. This study uses a quantitative research methodology to calculate forecasting and qualitatively, by means of observation or direct observation to the field to the company Telkom, Telkomsel, XL Axiata and Indosat. The results of this study showed five factors that influence the use of broadband i.e population, gross domestic product, per capita income, economic growth and inflation, and the rate of broadband penetration. Beside that, the results show that for the next five years, broadband users is increasing.

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