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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison’ s President Director and CEO, Vikram Sinha, explains how the company’ s landmark telecom merger, AI-first strategy and the Sahabat platform are positioning Indonesia to move from a digital consumption market to a creator of sovereign AI infrastructure.

began my career at Coca-Cola, so

I understand the power of brand. Indosat is a 58-year-old company and the first to connect Indonesia to the world through satellites in the early days with Satelindo.

Fast forward to 2022 when Indosat became Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison( IOH) and four years on I can confidently say we have become a global playbook example of a successful telecom merger.

Telecom is all about scale and the merger gave us the platform to achieve this – making us one of the top operators globally. There are less than 10 operators in the world with close to 100 million customers and when we fulfilled that goal, we started wondering what was next.

Indosat is such an iconic brand and when we attached our purpose to it, all 4,000 employees truly rallied around it. The greater purpose for us is empowering Indonesia. The country is on a

Vikram Sinha, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison’ s President Director and CEO www. intelligentcio. com

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