GTI GLOBAL 2.

3G SPECTRUM ROUNDTABLE

INDONESIA’S 2.3 GHz SPECTRUM LICENSING

Experience and Future Planning
July 24th 2020

Denny Setiawan
Director of Spectrum Policy and Planning, DG SDPPI
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATICS www.kominfo.go.id @kemkominfo
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 MOBILE BROADBAND COVERAGE IN INDONESIA (Q4 2019)

Number of villages in total:

83.218 villages

Covered* villages: 76.428

Uncovered villages: 6.790 Covered villages : 70.670
2G 3T** 5.639 villages
4G Uncovered villages: 12.548
Non-3T 1.151 villages 3T 9.113 villages
Covered villages : 67.006 Non 3T 3.435 villages
Uncovered villages: 6.212
3G 3T 10.909 villages
Non 3T 5.303 villages

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**3T = terdepan, terluar, tertinggal (frontier, outermost and least developed regions)
Source: Dukcapil (2016), BIG (2016), Data site & coverage Cellular operator Q3 2019 (2019)
SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT FOR MOBILE BROADBAND

Coverage Band Capacity Band

450 MHz / 900 Sub 1800 2100 2300 Sub Total No of

Operator
850 MHz MHz Total MHz MHz MHz Total Spectrum Subscribers
Telkomsel - 2 x 15 30 MHz 2 x 22.5 2 x15 30 105MHz 135 MHz 171.1 Million
2x
Indosat - 25 MHz 2 x 20 2 x15 - 70MHz 95 MHz 59.3 Million
12.5
XL - 2 x 7.5 15 MHz 2 x 22.5 2 x15 - 75MHz 90 MHz 56.7 Million
Hutchison - - 2 x 10 2 x 15 - 50MHz 50 MHz 30.4 Million
Smartfren* 2 x 11 - 22 MHz - - 30 30MHz 52 MHz 13.3 Million
Sampoerna 2 x 7.5 - 15 MHz - - - 0MHz 15 MHz 0.2 Million
*) including licensed for PT Smart Telecom
Reference: SDPPI 2020

+Additional Class-Licensed Bandwidth with LAA Technology: 300 MHz (in 5 GHz band)

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 INDONESIA 5G ROADMAP & CHALLENGES
Super Data Layer: 26 / 28 GHz
Spectrum Demand High Band: new special needs of 5G
until 2024 (5G era) (100 Mbps user data rate, 1ms latency)
Capacity Layer: 2.3 / 2.6 / 3.3 / 3.5 GHz
Government Target
Middle Band: for umbrella network
Until 2024
that combine mobility & capacity

Spectrum Release Coverage Layer: 700 MHz

Achievement (cumulative) Low Band: to expand
~2024: 191 MHz mobile coverage, especially
2015-2019: 546 MHz CURRENT in rural area
CURRENT TOTAL: 737 MHz ROADMAP

LOWER & MID BAND CHALLENGES

700 MHz 2.6 GHz 3.5 GHz (Ext-C Band)
• Incumbent service: Analogue TV • Incumbent Service: BSS Satellite • Incumbent Service: FSS, around 7 satellites
• ASO Policy and Regulation (assigned until 2024) and 56 transponders operating in this
requires agreement with band (the latest licensed last in 2034)
Parliament through on-going
discussion in Omnibus Law and
proposed revision of Broadcasting
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 BAND PLAN OF 2.3 GHz
2300 2330 2360 2375 2390 2400 MHz
guard
MOBILE MOBILE BWA BWA band

ZONE
1 – North Sumatera - BERCA
2 – Central Sumatera BERCA BERCA
3 – South Sumatera BERCA BERCA
4 – Banten & Jabodebek - -
5 – West Java - -
6 – Central Java - -
7 – East Java - -
8 – Bali & Nusa Tenggara BERCA BERCA -
9 – Papua NATIONWIDE NATIONWIDE - -
10 – Moluccas - -
11 – South Sulawesi BERCA BERCA
12 – North Sulawesi - -
13 – West Kalimantan BERCA BERCA
14 – East Kalimantan BERCA BERCA
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15 – Riau Islands BERCA -
 2360 – 2390 MHz BAND
• Auction: Regional BWA (15 Zones) with • BWA regional license is extended for
specific standard. another 10 years in zones mostly outside
• Eligible bidder: excluding mobile operators. Java islands.
• License: 10 years (possible to be extended for • It is expected to conduct spectrum
the next 10 years) auction to license the remaining areas in
• Lesson learned: not successful in most cases. 2360-2390 MHz spectrum block this year
for mobile operator.

Year 2009 Year 2011 Year 2020

• Neutral technology policy for
BWA operators
• Operators moved to LTE TDD

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 2330 – 2360 MHz BAND
• PCS-1900 assignment in the year
• PCS-1900 causing Smart Telecom’s migration
2003:
(UL) 1903.125 - 1910 MHz interference to UMTS 2.1 GHz completed
(DL) 1983.125 -1990 MHz • Migrating Smart Telecom PCS
• Smart Telecom acquire the PCS-
1900 to LTE 2330 – 2360 MHz
1900 licensee and start to
implement in year 2006

Before year 2012 Year 2014 Year 2016

Interference !!

800 900 1.8 1.9 2.1 2.3

300 3.0
MHz GHz
Migration… www.kominfo.go.id @kemkominfo
2300 – 2330 MHz BAND
In year 2017, spectrum auction of 2.3 GHz band (1 block of 30 MHz) followed by 2.1 GHz (2 blocks @5 MHz)
was held to fulfill the increasing demand of spectrum of mobile operators, due to the followings:
➢ network congestion
➢ needs of high speed connection
➢ demand of a good quality of cellular service

Minimum Jumlah
AmountSektor 3G+4G
of 3G+4G (data
Sector Maret2017)
(per March 2017)
Inter-Site
Acuan Minimum
Luas Distance Jumlah
AmountSector
of
Area Klasifikasi Inter-Site
No. Wilayah
City Wilayah Classi- Reference BaseSector
Station Untuk Operator
Base Operator Operator Operator Operator Operator Operator
(km2)
2 Wilayah
ficatio
Distance
(ISD)
(ISD) Station*
(km ) Cover Wilayah A B C D E F G
n (km)
(km) (Coverage Wise)
1 Kota Medan 265,00 Sub Urban 1,3 544 1379 1426 0 378 379 3063 2445
2 DKI Jakarta 664,01 Urban 0,5 9201 4936 11729 8 1566 1558 13918 11328
Outter Ring
3 DKI Jakarta 826,52 Sub Urban 1,3 1695 4878 5594 4 1012 999 16712 7507
(Bodetabek)
4 Kota Bandung 167,67 Urban 0,5 2324 1604 1755 0 432 422 3724 2381
5 Kota Semarang 373,78 Sub urban 1,3 767 1397 1262 0 371 332 2002 1279
6 Kota Yogyakarta 32,50 Sub Urban 1,3 67 291 700 0 96 96 711 441
7 Kota Surabaya 350,54 Sub Urban 1,3 719 1786 2727 9 650 687 3621 2993
8 Kota Denpasar 127,78 Sub Urban 1,3 262 960 1028 1 140 143 2022 2170
9 Kota Pontianak 107,80 Sub Urban 1,3 221 610 374 0 18 0 853 378
10 Kota Makassar 199,26 Sub Urban 1,3 409 1192 1046 28 263 260 3243 886

already congested *Using coverage-wise approach

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 2300 – 2330 MHz BAND
Eligible Bidder Auction Method (2017)
❑ Elimination Method : prequalification
• Existing Mobile Operators Licensee
❑ e-Auction format: SMRA (Simultaneous Multiple-Round
• No debt of license fees (spectrum Fee, Telco Ascending Auction) with Clock (lasted 2 days, 37 rounds)
License Fee and USO Fund) ❑ Bidders performed their bids from their respective offices

License Winner
• Spectrum License is valid for 10 years and may be
extended for the next 10 years
• Nationwide license

Spectrum Fee - Result Winner’s Obligation

• Upfront Fee: 2x bidding price of the winner • Synchronize the parameter of LTE TDD frame
(± USD 210 million) configuration with other Operators in 2.3
• Annual Fee: the bidding price of selection winner GHz frequency band 10

(± USD 70 million per year) • LTE TDD config applied: Config 2

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 COORDINATION OF 2.3 GHz WITH NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
* Trilateral: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore coordination meeting
Background ** JCC: Indonesia and Malaysia coordination meeting

NO DATE INFORMATION
1 15 Dec 2014 PT. Smart Telecom started to deploy the TDD-LTE 2300 MHz.

The meeting agreed that the coordination distance of 13 km is to be

2 29 Sept 2016 14th Trilateral*
maintained and this is applicable for LTE deployment in 2.3 GHz band

Malaysia and Singapore currently did not regulate the TDD

synchronization between their operators yet.
3 5 Oct 2017 15th Trilateral
The Meeting took note on the updates and members agreed to provide
additional information at next Trilateral meeting.

Bilateral Meeting of Indonesia – Malaysia, in order to minimize the

25 – 27 Sept potential interference, Indonesia request for Malaysian operator to
4 16th JCC**
2017 consider acceleration to synchronize its TDD configuration into TDD
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• Difference TDD frame configuration will potentially causes interference to the networks.
Existing Configuration ITU-Rec Configuration

• Invite the meeting to modify TDD configuration to configuration 2 (config 2) without time offset
• MCI recognized that in October 1st 2019, the mobile operators from Malaysia and Singapore
already completed configuring the TDD scheme configuration in 2.3 GHz band into Config 2 (time
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 COORDINATION OF 2.3 GHz WITH NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES

• After the alignment of TDD frame configuration between neighboring countries, the potential
of interference cases is minimized in border areas.

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THANK YOU
- 2020 -

DG SDPPI
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATICS
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