CEO Talk & Entrepreneurial Development Forum: Trends in the Telecommunication Industry and the use of IoT in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Class of Capita Selecta Management and Business (KSMB) on Saturday 9 May 2020 was attended by E69 and E70 classes via Zoom Cloud Meeting. Dr. Irfan Nabhani who is SVP Head of Subsidiary & Portfolio Mgt PT Indosat, Tbk delivered the material “New Telco Order”. He has more than 15 years of experience in the Indonesian telecommunications industry. S1 education was completed at UNPAD, S2 at ITB and S3 at SB-IPB.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought significant changes in our lives, one of which is the role of the virtual or digital world. The telecommunications sector has a big role in this situation, namely (1) provide business critical connectivity and network resilience, (2) keep business runny by means of video and remote collaboration tools, and (3) keep families together (informed & entertained) during social isolation. In the short term, the telecommunications sector faces several risks such as (1) risk of traffic explosion, traffic exceeding network capacity, (2) risk of deployment on network deployment, partner / government ecosystem, and (3) risk on revenue, customer spending pattern change. . Technology 4.0 trends in terms of current and future applications can be categorized into mobility, industrial IoT (IIoT), mass market / retail, health, and supplies.

Indosat IoT and digital applications can be categorized into logical layer, physical layer and connectivity layer. Some of the digital solutions implemented by Indosat IoT are Netfleet, Productivity Monitoring, iKanvas. The discussion sessions were very lively with many students asking questions and sharing experiences. The speaker emphasized the importance of building an ecosystem, so that each actor can jointly develop equitable digital access for all of Indonesia.