PT Indonusa Telemedia, branded as Transvision is a
subscription
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-based
direct broadcast satellite
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provider service for
Indonesia
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. It is
Trans Media
PT Trans Media Corpora is an Indonesian media corporation that is a subsidiary of Trans Corp, a part of CT Corp, owned by Chairul Tanjung. Trans Media was initially founded as a subsidiary of Trans Corp, a liaison between the television network ...
, a subsidiary of
CT Corp
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.
Transvision's slogan is ''Broadcasting at The Edge of Technology''.
Early history
PT Indonusa Telemedia was established on May 7, 1997, with the brand name TelkomVision. They began operations in 1999 and started as a company consisting of several shareholders:
* PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom)
* PT Telekomindo Primabhakti (part of
Rajawali Corpora
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, which was led by
Peter Sondakh
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, which also own a stake in
PT Excelcomindo Pratama)
* PT Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (
RCTI
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)
* PT Datakom Asia
By 2003, Telkom became its principal shareholder by holding 98.75% share of TelkomVision, while the rest (1.25%) is owned by Datakom, which was owned by
Peter F. Gontha
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Early life and education
G ...
,
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Indonesia
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Peo ...
,
Anthoni Salim cs, which also own a stake in
SCTV,
Cipta Aneka Selaras,
Indovision
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and
Kabelvision.
![TransVision](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/TransVision.svg)
In 2014, TelkomVision officially rebranded as Transvision due to TelkomVision shareholders only 20% and now owned by Trans Media which became its principal shareholder by holding 80%. Now Transvision is fully owned by joint venture between Telkom Group and Trans Media.
Cable TV
Transvision coverage area for analog cable TV is limited to a number of cities in Indonesia, such as
Jakarta
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,
Bandung
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,
Semarang
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, and
Surabaya
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. It has also a digital cable service that covers Bandung, Jakarta, and Surabaya. Now replaced by
IndiHome
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which still owned by Telkom Indonesia, as of 2021.
Satellite TV
Transvision's satellite service covers 38 distributor areas in
Indonesia
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. Transvision is using the Measat 3B satellite (Ku-band) to provide High Definition TV.
Subscribers
At April 2011, TelkomVision has 200,000 subscribers and was planned be boosted up to 500,000 at end of the year using security and media technology software, Irdeto's Conditional Access System. The lowest Hit Family package costs Rp.55,000 ($6.4) per month, but Transvision would soon release a cheaper product to introduce pay TV broadcasts.
TelkomVision aims to double subscribers
The Jakarta Post
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