[SatNews] In the Asian market, this agreement is certainly well-timed and enhances business opportunities...

Thuraya has signed a new agreement with Indonesia’s PTSOG to further boost existing business partnership between the two companies in the major Asian market. In accordance with the agreement, PTSOG, which is a specialized radio and satellite communications retailer based in Indonesia, will be a key partner in promoting and providing Thuraya’s Public Calling Office (PCO) throughout the country.

Thuraya PCO is a highly affordable rural telephony solution that provides voice, fax, data and SMS services. Designed as manned payphone solution, the PCO makes these services available through a user-friendly public phone service station. Some common areas of applying this solution include rural villages, on-road phone stations, armed forces camps, recreational camping areas, relief zones and archaeological sites. The agreement was signed in Jakarta by Thuraya’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Samer Halawi and PTSOG’s President Mr. Sanny Jauwhannes. The project entails roll-out of a large number of PCO units across many remote and small island communities in Indonesia.