Indonesia, with the third largest population on earth, has the potential to be the ‘new China’ in terms of mobile growth opportunities. However, the country has been very slow to enable mobile broadband, and now its auction to open up more 3G spectrum has been delayed for the fourth time in the wake of the bankruptcy of lead telco Telkomsel. Existing 2G and 3G networks are coming under rising strain as Indonesian consumers start to adopt smartphones and data services, so new capacity is urgently needed. As for 4G, the country made a commitment to WiMAX, but restricted it to the old fixed standard for many years, and LTE is unlikely to start its roll-out until 2014 because the potential…