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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - XL BlackBerry Customers certainly will not have network access constraints due to the bandwidth capacity of the service has to be 250 Megabytes per second (Mbps).

"The bandwidth capacity has increased since the beginning of March 2010, from the previous 180 Mbps," said GM Direct Sales Tbk PT XL Axiata Warih, Handono Warih, after the launch of the BlackBerry Promo XL, in Jakarta, Tuesday (30/3/2010).

According Warih, utilization levels of customer data access is now reaching 60 percent of the 250,000 Mbps capacity currently available. "If you've reached 80 percent, we must quickly increase bandwidth capacity," he said.

He said, adding bandwidth is a must in line with the trend growth of XL is about 40,000 BlackBerry customers per month. "Every one XL BlackBerry customers on average use 100 MB of bandwidth per month," he said.

He explained, until mid-March 2010 the number of subscribers XL BlacakBerry reached 310,000, up from about 250,000 subscribers at the end of 2009. Of the total 310,000 BlackBerry subscribers XL today, 80 percent of the majority of prepaid customers who use a subscription scheme Daily USD 5000, the remaining monthly subscription.

Still Warih not specify the average toll usage per month per customer (average revenue per user / ARPU). He added, increasing the number of users XL BlackBerry estimated the ARPU decline. Growth of BlackBerry subscribers in the country remain high driven by three factors namely reduction in tariffs, the emergence of new products, price is more cheap mobile phone, and the development of social networking.