ASEAN could not come through connectivity without the private sector. Phone illustration (clear2talk. com)

VIVAnews -telecommunications industry special breakthrough in order ASEAN connectivity. One of them with free roaming services in ASEAN.

Director of PT XL Axiata Tbk, Hasnul Suhaimi, said, with no roaming, cost of the phone are cheap and the number of users will increase. "It not only roaming phone, but also data," he said at the Forum of ASEAN leadership at Hotel Nikko Jakarta, Monday 9 May 2011.

He said, at this moment free roaming colleague large group only done. XL Axiata for example, the cost of roaming 80-100% of your fellow group cut. Unfortunately, this has not managed to roaming traffic operator non-group.

"It is difficult, because roaming 10% of the income support can," he said. "This is to think about together."

Meanwhile, said the President Director of PT Bakrie Telecom Tbk, Anindya N Bakrie, that ASEAN is not possible, the connection can be made without the private sector.

The ASEAN connectivity, according to him, is a connectedness, economic, physical, emotional, and digital. "Because it requires the infrastructure of the transport, energy and the digital," he said.

On a digital connectivity, according to him, which later required a large network of internet. Currently, according to Anin, the use of social networks is already very large, especially Indonesia. This condition will continue to evolve in the future.

Earlier, the ASEAN leaders give priority to the construction of regional connectivity. The connectedness of the region is expected to drive the economy and the mobility of goods, services, and man in Southeast Asia to improve.

Regional connectivity is one of the 10 most important issues discussed in the 18th ASEAN Summit.

The other main theme is food safety and energy, conflict of Thailand-Cambodia, regional architecture of the enhancement of ASEAN role in the global forum, ASEAN to change based on the Organization of society, and cooperation the treatment of natural disasters.

Following the discussion on cooperation between the sub-ASEAN, such as Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines--the material on the East-Asian Summit in Bali, November 2011 will be taken. And then, for East Timor became a member of ASEAN, as well as Myanmar was the Chairman of the ASEAN proposal in 2014. (art)