Indonesia’s new telco launches with big coverage goals

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has started life as a merged entity in Indonesia and from the outset is tasked with some fairly weighty mobile coverage obligations.
CK Hutchison and Ooredoo announced the completion of their Indonesian merger on Tuesday, having received the required shareholder and regulatory approvals. While the telcos themselves talked up their increased scale and ambitions to become the provider of choice in the country, the regulator’s comments on the merger made it clear tha