Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud are expanding their long-term strategic partnership to accelerate Indosat’s transformation from a telco to an AI-native techco, facilitating a new era of innovation and improved customer experience for more than 100 million Indosat users and enterprises across Indonesia.
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