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Visit of Dr. Ferrie Hu of the Forum. He's the business development director for Asia. He's here to promote WiMAX in Indonesia. This is a closed event, for invitee only. Arranged by Indonesian Mastel. And sponsored by one of the WiMAX vendor... :-)

This is a perfect time to do it, in my opinion, because:

1. Public receives a lot of wrong, misleading, over-promising message about WiMAX. Overly hyped, when reality strikes, people will be dissappointed. Thus. this good technology might die before it is launched as the result.
2. Government is seriously thinking of releasing a WiMAX license by 2008. There are a lot of heavy lobbying currently happening over there, and sadly, giving a wrong information. So it is important that they receives a balanced information.
3. What are the current gov't concern BTW? Namely: the best frequency allocation (2.3? 2.5? 3.3? 3.5?), economics of WiMAX, contribution of local manufacturing/industry in global value chain, and digital divide.
   
4. As well with operators, who are considering WiMAX. Especially the new comers. Understand WiMAX as a whole, not clouded by the hype.

Actually, the day before, they visited the regulatory body. And like I said, the mastermind of this event is one aggressive WiMAX vendor. A smart move actually: they gain the popularity as the one who brings the credible expert to Indonesia and as the one who's interest is to grow the industry. Not only their business. That's business development.

To be updated: Dr. Hu's message.