Archipelago Partners Telekomunikasi Indonesia to Speed Up Internet at Hotels

Archipelago International has signed a deal with PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) to introduce a dramatically faster internet connection than what most businesses and hotels are use to - up to 100 Megabits per second over fiber optic cable.

Most hotels in Indonesia have only around 5 to 10 Mbps on average for the entire hotel and it's often delivered with less reliable and higher latency wireless links. As such, many guests will have experienced a strange phenomenon while staying in a hotel - the Internet speed is good for a while and then becomes almost unusable. There are a number of factors which can contribute to this situation, however the most common is that the hotel just doesn't have enough bandwidth to share among all its guests at the same time.

Jules Brookfield, Vice President of Technology at Archipelago International, said, "We're very excited to be able to so dramatically increase the total amount of bandwidth available to our hotels and thus to our guests. Nearly all of our hotel owners have expressed a strong desire to have their hotel connected at such a dramatically improved speed at such an attractive price point asap! We're also very pleased that we're able to offer this great deal all across the archipelago, not just Java/Bali/Sumatera but Kalimantan and Sulawesi and beyond where internet speeds traditionally tend to be extremely expensive, slow and unreliable. Improvements like these give me great hope in the future of Indonesia and the hospitality industry here."

Jules also said that the company wants to remove the frustration a lot of guests have when logging into their WiFi by removing annoying login screens and hoops so many businesses force their users to jump through just to connect.

Archipelago International is now working to get this new internet connection out to all of its hotels, but given the extreme distances between them and existing contracts with other ISPs, this is expected to take a while.

Nevertheless Archipelago already has 30 of their more than 100 hotels connected to this super fast internet connection.