Internet access providers required to have minimum int`l bandwidth capacity
The Directorate General of Post and Telecommunications is requiring network access providers (NAPs) to have international bandwidth internet networks with a minimum capacity of 45 megabytes per second (Mbps), a spokesman said
“The obligation to have the minimum bandwidth networks is designed to increase NAPs` bargaining position towards overseas internet networks,” Gatot S Dewa Brata, the directorate general`s general affairs and public relations officer, said here Wednesday.
The bandwidth internet networks would allow NAPs to operate at economical costs so that the rates the public had to pay for internet services could in the long run also be lowered, he said.
In the future, NAPs would be prohibited from directly serving end-users (corporate and retail bodies) and alllowed only to cater to Internet service providers that serve end-users.
The directorate general had been carrying out public consultations with NAPs on the minimum international bandwidth networks requirement since last month, he said.
Gatot said the purpose of the minimum international bandwidth networks requirement was to create a conducive internet industry.
Consequently, enforcement of the law on consistency in the structure of the internet industry with the support of the stakeholders was a must, he said.
Gatot said the more a website was being visited, the greater would be the capacty of the bandwidth network the NAP concerned would have to install.(*)
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