Telkom and Telstra’s Joint Venture to Start on May 2015

Indonesia-based Telkom and Australia’s Telstra have built a mutual joint venture, which runs in Network & Application and Services (NAS) business segment, called TelkomTelstra. It’s planned to start competing in Indonesian IT battlefield by the middle of May 2015.

As being cited from Indotelko, Telkom Group’s Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer Indra Utoyo revealed that TelkomTelstra will soon join the game in this coming May.

“TelkomTelstra is ready to enter the field of national IT industry per the second week of this coming May. TelkomTelstra’s management team are preparing everything now,” he said.

TelkomTelstra is a joint venture being established to focus on NAS or cloud computing. Telkom perceived Telstra as an experienced player which has successfully held the ICT-based services in Australia, thus picking it as a partner.

Utoyo guaranteed that TelkomTelstra won’t be a direct competitor to other Telkom’s subsidiary, TelkomSigma, although both run on IT businesses. He added that the latter provides the data center and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for TelkomTelstra to make use of.

“As for the market, TelkomTelstra will focus on corporates segment. TelkomTelstra will only produce products, in which the sales will be handled by Pak Awaluddin (Telkom’s Director of Enterprise and Business Service Muhammad Awaluddin),” Utoyo stated.

Utoyo further explained that TelkomTelstra will be led by Telstra’s representative.

“For the managerial position, it would be Telstra’s CEO as we may extract his concept and knowledge to transform the enterprise services which make customers easier and more efficient in having cloud-based end-to-end managed services,” Utoyo said.

TelkomTelstra’s official page suggests that Philip Sporton will be the company’s President Director.