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

"The capacity of the bandwidth has been promoted 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, the utilization rate of access to customer data has reached 60 per cent from 250,000 Mbps capacity currently available. "If it reaches 80 percent, we would immediately increase the bandwidth capacity," he said.

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

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

Even so Warih not specify the average usage per subscriber unit per month (average revenue per user / ARPU). He added that the increasing number of BlackBerry users, the XL is expected ARPU decline. BlackBerry subscriber growth remained high in the ground water driven decline in tariffs on three factors namely, the emergence of new products, the price of cheap mobile phones, and the development of social networking.