Prepaid Card Registration Brings Victims

Dozens of business actors in the business of card sales in Grobogan District, Central Java rampaged and burned all their active prepaid SIM cards on the edge of the Grobogan - Semarang highway, precisely in Manggarmas Village, Godong Subdistrict, Grobogan on Thursday (22 / 3/2018).

REGISTRATION of prepaid cards takes its toll. No need to talk about Smartfren who is in the process of losing even though the amount of losses less and less, Telkomsel and Indosat Ooredoo and XL Axiata experienced a decrease in profit and loss in the process of registration that has just passed.

From the financial statements of top telecom operators in the first quarter of 2018, the worst operators were Indosat whose revenues decreased from Rp 7.29 trillion in Q1 / 2017 to Rp 5.692 trillion in Q1 of 2018.

Ooredoo's subsidiary recorded a loss of Rp 505.69 billion, a fantastic drop, 390.8 percent from Rp 173.85 billion in the same period.

The group of PT Telkom (Telkomsel in it), although recorded a revenue increase of 4.26 percent from Rp 31.022 trillion to Rp 32.343 trillion, the profit fell 13.64 percent from Rp 6.7 trillion to Rp 5.78 trillion.

While XL Axiata, which also recorded the same period revenue increase from Rp 5,265 trillion to Rp 5.5 trillion (4.48 percent), the profits dropped by 66.8 percent from Rp 46.5 billion to Rp 15.43 billion.