Dayamitra Telekomunikasi acquires telco towers worth $113 mln

JAKARTA: Dayamitra Telekomunikasi, the telecommunications infrastructure unit of Indonesia’s biggest firm in the sector Telkom Indonesia, has acquired 803 towers worth 1.75 trillion rupiah ($113.01 million), the company said in a statement on Thursday.

The firm, known as Mitratel, said the acquisition is in line with their mission to provide more connectivity outside the country’s most populated island, Java, as demand for internet use rises in other regions of Indonesia, which is made up of thousands of islands.