Yesterday was a fun, but a little bit different MoMo event…. First is that we co-hosted the event with MASTEL, the topic was mobile infrastructure related. Naturally, we have a bit different audience. But it was still filled with relax, fun and productive atmosphere.

Here’s the recap, as promised.

Pak Giri from MASTEL welcome the audience and gave an interesting example on how broadband can bring productivity and increase quality of life.

Werner Sutanto from Intel explained the status of WiMAX from around the globe: deployment and use cases, drivers for adoption (which is the pervasiveness of Internet), and most importantly certification status.

It is also interesting that major countries in SEA in the forefront of WiMAX deployment. Networks in Singapore, Malaysia, The Philipines and Cambodia are approaching commercial launch.

He shared Intel platforms that will go into notebooks and MID/mobile handsets. Fueled by certification and mass adoption, chipset price will go further down and drive the demand further.

Next, Yohan Suryanto from ABWINDO shared his view about the potential of WiMAX in Indonesia. He mentioned clearly that access to information is one of the key human rights (Pancasila Sila V) and thus driving the demand for bandwidth all across Indonesia.  WiMAX is a key technology enabler to serve this.

Yohan and Werner highlighted the need for thorough eco system to boost adoption. (And later on also voiced by Trio).

As for Indonesia, he gave a number of good proposal to enable WiMAX, such as: potential frequency band to be allocated, equipment standards, licenses reward process.

Last but not least, Trio Adiono from ITB explained his bold vision to enter the WiMAX chipset business. He and team have already 20 years of experience in chip design, and he believed that the time is right for Indonesia to ride on the WiMAX wave.

Their first product will be 2.3 GHz WiMAX baseband chipset. (Baseband is the part which processes digital data from MAC/Ethernet layer into IF data to feed the radio part, if you know what I mean).

We conclude the event with Google giving away a couple of mugs and a very interesting insight on what’s happening recently in Indonesian mobile Internet market. (Details after the break).

Slides will be available in this website (see the Download section) or in Slideshare (goto www.slideshare.net/idmobilemonday).