War Between Mobile Service Providers Not Over

War Between Mobile Service Providers Not Over
The lowest rate among all operators ! that is the sales pitch of XL Bebas in an ad that has run for weeks. On March 5, the XL operator started offering a rate not based on per second, per minute or hour and now millions of XL Bebas subscriber throughout Indonesia can enjoy the lowest rate ever and talk to theirs heart’s content at a rate of Rp 0.00001 per second. Indosat also run its sensational ads, Indosat announced Rp 0,00000000001 / per second. Three the brand owned by PT Hutchison offers a rate of Rp 1/ per minute. This means this Hong Kong operator only charges 1.66 Indonesian cent per second. Esia also has a low rate since day one of its operation. It has further expanded its promotional program by offering a free bonus Rp 50 per minute to subscribers when phoned by other GSM users. A similar strategy of offering low rates is also used by PT Smart Telecom, until March 31 subscribers will not be charged for calls to other Smart subscriber, while the sms rate among subscriber is only Rp 25