Business dealsIndonesia's Surge draws investment from NTT East in fiber optics push
Japanese telecom to take 49% stake in subsidiary and help train engineers
NTT East President Naoki Shibutani, right, shakes hands with Arwin Rasyid, commissioner of Weave investor JIA. They aim to boost Weave's customer base to 40 million households. (Photo by Nikkei)
JAKARTA -- Indonesian digital infrastructure provider Surge has agreed to an investment by Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East as part of a collaboration to expand the Surge group's residential fiber network customer base by millions of households nationwide.