The product is reachability
Theko Digital Solusindo is best understood as a local internet operator whose economics are shaped by Ternate before they are shaped by any national broadband chart. The company trades publicly as ThekoNet, operates from Jl. Raya Mangga Dua No. 25 in Ternate Selatan, and presents itself as an internet service provider for dedicated access, wireless links, fibre connections, server colocation, managed network services, cloud hosting, application work and support. Its official site says the company was formed in Ternate on July 24, 2019 and identifies an internet access licence issued by Ditjen PPI Kominfo under number 283/TEL.02.02/2019. APJII's member directory separately lists PT THEKO DIGITAL SOLUSINDO, brand THEKONET, as an ISP member in Ternate, North Maluku.
That identity is small but not empty. ThekoNet has a live public network identity in AS139379, APNIC and IDNIC records, APJII membership, PeeringDB, a looking-glass URL, official service pages, a customer support surface and a government procurement catalogue listing. The company is not visible as a national fibre challenger, a large mobile operator, a data-centre platform or a listed telecom group. It is a regional provider in an eastern Indonesian city where local trust, support availability and field capability can be more important to customers than a polished national brand promise. The central question is therefore practical: can a small Ternate ISP turn local reachability into enough recurring contract value to pay for backhaul, equipment, engineering labour, support and customer retention in a geography that makes every operational failure more expensive?
The company sits in a difficult part of Indonesia's connectivity map. Ternate is the main city of North Maluku and a commercial, education and government hub for surrounding islands. It is not a Jakarta, Surabaya or Bandung market where dense enterprise buildings, multiple data centres and high route diversity compress the cost of delivery. The city's own official statistics and planning records put its 2024 population around 210,836 people spread across eight districts and several island communities. Port and air traffic matter to the local economy, and services, trade, education, government and transport are important demand drivers. For an ISP, that means customers are not only households streaming video. They are hotels, schools, public offices, small businesses, trading firms, technicians, local content users, government buyers and organizations that need a person to answer when a connection fails.
ThekoNet's website language reflects that market. It does not sell only low-cost residential broadband. Its front page emphasizes dedicated internet for businesses, fibre-optic and wireless connection, a 99 percent service level, online technical support, quick installation, managed routers, managed LAN, IT outsourcing, managed mail, server colocation, application and website solutions, network infrastructure and cloud hosting. Its service page lists broadband T-Home offers of 10 Mbps, 20 Mbps and 30 Mbps at Rp350,000, Rp400,000 and Rp420,000 per month, all with unlimited bandwidth, private NAT, no FUP, 24/7 live support and tax included. The same page lists T-ENT dedicated enterprise 1:1 services at 10 Mbps for Rp4.5 million per month, 50 Mbps for Rp15.5 million and 100 Mbps for Rp25 million, with public IPs, MRTG traffic visibility, 99 percent SLA, live support and loaned wireless router equipment.
Those prices reveal the company's likely commercial center. The household-style offers are expensive if compared with dense-city mass broadband, but they make more sense if the product is support-heavy, capacity-constrained and delivered over a mixed wireless and fibre footprint in an island city. The enterprise offers are the more important signal. ThekoNet is not simply trying to compete for the cheapest consumer plan. It is offering contracted dedicated capacity, traffic monitoring, public IP addressing, equipment, support and installation documentation. In a place where customers may have limited alternative local engineering support, those features can be the difference between a commodity link and a relationship.
Identity, licensing and the local operating surface
The legal and operating identity can be reconciled across several public surfaces. The company uses PT. Theko Digital Solusindo on its official site and PT Theko Digital Solusindo in APJII and APNIC-style records. The brand is ThekoNet. The official site gives Jl. Raya Mangga Dua No. 25, Ternate Selatan, North Maluku, with phone and support contacts. APJII lists the same office street and city, brand THEKONET, ISP permission type, domain THEKO.NET.ID and registration number 684. The APNIC whois record for AS139379 names THEKO-AS-ID, describes PT Theko Digital Solusindo as an internet service provider in Ternate, North Maluku, and gives the same broad address area. The IP allocation record for 103.142.200.0 to 103.142.201.255 also names PT Theko Digital Solusindo, internet service provider, with the Mangga Dua Ternate address.
Theko's site and records are not perfectly uniform. The public web uses both theko.net.id and theko.id. PeeringDB points to https://www.theko.id as the company website override, while the visible official service pages are under https://theko.net.id. DNS checks show theko.net.id resolving inside the company's own 103.142.200.0/23 resource range and using Theko name servers. Some public records use a 97713 postal code and others include 97751. Contact numbers vary between office, helpdesk and person-level references. That is not unusual for a small regional operator, but it has economic meaning. A buyer, enterprise customer or upstream supplier has to reconcile brand, domain, legal company, resource holder, licence number and contact paths before assigning trust.
The strongest licence signal is the company's own statement that it operates under Ditjen PPI Kominfo licence number 283/TEL.02.02/2019, combined with the Inaproc government catalogue entry for a THEKONET wireless domestic 20 Mbps service that repeats the same internet access licence number. APJII membership adds an industry association trace. This does not disclose full licence documents, financial standing or current regulatory compliance status. It does show that the company is not just a social page or reseller label. It has a recognizable Indonesian ISP identity, number resources, a public access licence reference and a service catalogue visible to government buyers.
The public leadership trace is narrow but useful. APNIC and IDNIC records list Theis Theis as administrative and technical contact for the AS and IP resources, while local school coverage names Theis Hoke as director of PT TDS during a 2021 memorandum with SMK Negeri 2 Ternate. Facebook search snippets also associate Theis Hoke with Theko Digital Solusindo. The public file does not prove ownership percentages, shareholder structure or current executive authority, so those facts should remain open. But the repeated person-level trace fits the shape of a founder-led or closely managed local ISP, where customer trust and technical escalation may still depend on identifiable individuals rather than a large organizational layer.
What ThekoNet sells and who pays
ThekoNet's product menu is broader than a simple last-mile internet page. The access product is obvious: broadband packages, dedicated enterprise services, wireless access, fibre access, public IPs and unlimited bandwidth language. The service wrapper is just as important: live support, traffic monitoring, customer service, installation and device lending. The IT-services layer includes managed routers, managed LAN, IT outsourcing, managed mail, network infrastructure building, application and website work, server colocation and cloud hosting. That mix suggests a company trying to capture the entire local connectivity problem for small organizations that do not have full in-house network teams.
The paying customers likely fall into four groups. The first is residential and small-office users who want a stable local internet connection and a provider they can call. The second is enterprise or institutional buyers that need dedicated capacity, public addressing and visibility into traffic. The third is government or public-sector buyers, as suggested by the Inaproc listing for a verified ThekoNet wireless domestic 20 Mbps service in Kota Ternate with 12-month duration, 1:1 upstream and downstream ratio, SLA 98 percent, public IP, access to a nearby central IIX within not more than three hops, monthly performance reports, trouble ticketing and online or on-site support. The fourth is technical-service demand: schools, training partners, businesses and local institutions that need network configuration, router management, web or application support and practical troubleshooting.
The government catalogue listing is especially revealing because it describes a service in buyer language rather than marketing language. It says the customer receives a dedicated wireless domestic 20 Mbps service with a 1:1 upstream-downstream ratio, public IP, open ports, customer-visible utilization reports, support, on-site maintenance and installation documents. It also lists supporting equipment as radio, tower or pole, and router. This is not mass-market home broadband. It is a managed access product where the customer buys assurance, documentation and support escalation. For a small provider, those features carry costs, but they also justify higher contract value than a consumer plan.
In practical terms, ThekoNet is selling the right to blame someone local. That sounds blunt, but it is a core part of small-ISP economics. A business customer in Ternate does not only need bits. It needs a responsible party when a payment terminal, office VPN, school lab, hotel Wi-Fi, cloud application or video meeting fails. A national operator may offer broader coverage and brand strength, but a small operator can sometimes win by being reachable, knowing the premises, sending a technician quickly and explaining the fault in local terms. That is the trust premium ThekoNet is trying to earn.
The routing evidence is real but compact
Theko Digital Solusindo has a compact but visible routing surface. AS139379 is registered as THEKO-AS-ID, with APNIC and IDNIC whois records naming PT Theko Digital Solusindo as an internet service provider in Ternate, North Maluku. The IP allocation record covers 103.142.200.0 to 103.142.201.255, netname THEKO-ID, status allocated portable. BGP.Tools shows AS139379 active, allocated under APNIC and classified as an eyeball network, originating two IPv4 /24 prefixes and no IPv6 prefixes. IP2Location and other public ASN pages also show two IPv4 ranges, 103.142.200.0/24 and 103.142.201.0/24, and no visible IPv6 address space for the network. PeeringDB lists PT Theko Digital Solusindo, also known as ISP Theko Net, with network type Cable/DSL/ISP, two IPv4 prefixes, zero IPv6 prefixes and traffic level of 100-1000 Mbps.
That does not make ThekoNet a large backbone provider. It does make it more substantial than an access reseller with no routing identity. A local operator with its own AS and portable address space has more control over public IP assignment, routing policy, upstream negotiation and network reputation than a provider entirely hidden behind a wholesale supplier. It can show customers a public network identity. It can operate a looking glass, publish technical contacts and maintain route objects. It can be evaluated through routing tools rather than only through advertising.
The main caution is upstream and diversity. The APNIC/IDNIC aut-num record still lists import from AS7597 and export to AS7597, meaning the registry record points to Indonesia Internet Exchange context as the formal route policy. BGP.Tools and Qrator views show live public routing and peering traces, including a visible peer relationship with AS138077, PT Abhinawa Sumberdaya Asia, while PeeringDB's public record is sparse. ThekoNet's own procurement catalogue language promises access to the nearest central IIX within not more than three hops and asks buyers to expect backbone redundancy information. Public evidence does not show a rich multi-upstream national backbone or extensive private peering. For an enterprise customer, the right diligence questions are therefore about physical backhaul from Ternate, upstream suppliers, failover routes, power resilience, restoration times and how much traffic can be carried before the 100-1000 Mbps public scale band becomes a constraint.
The absence of visible IPv6 is also material. Indonesia as a whole has been moving gradually on routing security and IPv6, but APNIC's 2026 overview still described national IPv6 capability as established yet far from universal. ThekoNet's public ASN pages show no IPv6 prefixes originated. That may not bother many local customers today, especially if the immediate buying decision is a dedicated IPv4-backed service with support. But it does limit the company's modernization story. If government, education or business buyers increasingly ask for IPv6, better route validation, dual-stack access and security posture, ThekoNet will need to show that it can move beyond an IPv4-only public footprint.
Ternate turns support into a cost center
The assignment's economic lens is Indonesia's archipelago support problem, and ThekoNet is a clean example. Ternate is an island city in eastern Indonesia, with demand connected to government, trade, education, services, ports and travel. North Maluku's geography means that connectivity is mediated by sea, weather, power, ports, microwave paths, submarine cable routes, satellite alternatives and the availability of technicians. APNIC's 2026 Indonesia overview states that the country's archipelagic geography shapes infrastructure deployment, service quality and access equity, with remote and eastern regions still facing limitations in quality, affordability and resilience. Those are not abstract national issues for a Ternate ISP. They are daily unit costs.
Field coordination is the first cost. A wireless service that includes radio, tower or pole, router, installation documents and on-site support requires technicians who can climb, align, test, document, repair and return. A fibre service requires route work, splicing, protection, customer drop management and fault finding. A managed LAN service requires work inside buildings, not just at the network edge. If a customer is a school, hotel, government office or small business, support can include user equipment, power quality, cabling, Wi-Fi placement and customer education. The provider may be blamed even when the fault sits inside the customer's premises.
Backhaul is the second cost. Local access is only useful if it reaches the rest of Indonesia and the global internet at acceptable latency, loss and capacity. ThekoNet's official site markets access to local Indonesian internet, OpenIXP and international internet. The procurement catalogue says the service should provide access to the nearest central IIX within not more than three hops. The public routing record suggests a compact autonomous system, not a deep carrier network. In a city like Ternate, backhaul can determine whether a provider is profitable. Buying too little capacity leads to congestion, complaints and churn. Buying too much creates idle cost in a small market. Keeping a backup path may protect reputation but can be expensive relative to the customer base.
Power and equipment are the third cost. A provider promising 24/7 support and 98 or 99 percent service levels has to pay for routers, radios, towers, poles, customer premises devices, monitoring, spares, batteries, surge protection, transport and engineering tools. ThekoNet's consumer packages say connection equipment is loaned free during subscription. The enterprise packages include loaned wireless routers. That lowers customer friction, but it puts capital at risk. A customer who churns quickly, pays late or damages equipment stretches the payback period. A business customer may generate higher monthly revenue, but also expects better response and more technical accountability.
Unit economics: small plans, large obligations
The unit economics are tight because the public plans combine recurring revenue with support-intensive promises. A T-Home 10 Mbps customer at Rp350,000 per month can look attractive against the cost of a basic wireless link only if the installation is efficient, equipment is reused or cheap, the support burden stays low, the customer pays reliably and the backhaul is not congested. A T-Home 30 Mbps customer at Rp420,000 gives only Rp70,000 more monthly revenue than the 10 Mbps tier, so speed upgrades are profitable only if capacity is already available. The enterprise plans change the scale: 10 Mbps dedicated at Rp4.5 million, 50 Mbps at Rp15.5 million and 100 Mbps at Rp25 million per month can carry real margin, but they also require public IPs, traffic monitoring, 1:1 capacity expectations, customer reporting, responsive support and credible restoration. The Inaproc 20 Mbps domestic wireless listing adds a 12-month term, 98 percent SLA, radio or tower/pole and router support, documentation, open ports and reports. ThekoNet therefore needs a book of accounts with enough dedicated or institutional revenue to offset installation labour, CPE, payment friction, taxes, backhaul, upstream fees, support hours and churn. A handful of enterprise contracts can matter more than many low-speed home lines; a few troubled enterprise contracts can also consume the margin of the whole local operation.
Payment friction deserves attention. In small-provider markets, collection is not a rounding error. Customers may prefer bank transfer, cash, local payment points or informal reminders. A school or government buyer may pay through formal procurement cycles. A small business may delay payment when tourism, trade or seasonal cash flow is weak. The provider still pays staff, upstream, rent, electricity and equipment suppliers. The official site does not disclose billing performance, bad debt, churn or total customer count, so the cash-cycle risk cannot be measured. But the product design shows the exposure: loaned equipment, customer support and dedicated capacity require money to be spent before the service has fully paid back.
Competition is larger than the local provider list
ThekoNet's competition should not be reduced to other small Ternate ISPs. It faces at least five categories of substitute. First are national or large regional operators with mobile, fibre or fixed-wireless products, including Telkomsel's IndiHome and Orbit family, XL/Indosat-linked fixed products, Biznet-style private fibre where available and ICON+ where electric-utility fibre can reach. OpenSignal's November 2025 Indonesia fixed-broadband report describes Telkomsel's IndiHome/Orbit footprint as the market leader with an estimated 67 percent fixed-broadband share, followed by ICON+ and MyRepublic at much smaller shares. Even when those national brands do not serve every Ternate premise well, their advertising, bundling and perceived stability set customer expectations.
Second are other regional ISPs and technical resellers in eastern Indonesia. APJII's directories show many small providers across the country, including neighbouring Sulawesi and Maluku-linked operators. A small ThekoNet customer may compare not only headline Mbps but also the technician who answers, the equipment provided, the installation time and the response during outages. Third are satellite options, including VSAT and newer low-earth-orbit services, which can become more attractive for sites outside easy terrestrial coverage. Fourth are mobile broadband and tethering, particularly for households or small businesses that can tolerate lower stability. Fifth are in-house or local IT service providers that can manage routers, Wi-Fi and applications while buying connectivity from someone else.
The company's answer is to bundle network and support. ThekoNet's managed service language, helpdesk link, live support, traffic monitoring, public IPs, installation documents and local school/training connections all point to a support-led strategy. It is not trying to win purely by publishing the fastest cheap residential plan. It is trying to be a technical partner. That strategy can work in Ternate if customers value continuity, know the support team and need somebody nearby. It weakens if larger operators improve local support while undercutting price, or if satellite and mobile alternatives become good enough for smaller customers.
Where the accounts can become sticky
The most attractive accounts for ThekoNet are probably not the cheapest home connections. They are customers whose daily operations make internet failure visible to other people. A school computer lab needs stable access during class, not only a low bill. A hotel or guest house needs Wi-Fi that works when guests arrive, pay, call family, upload photos and complain at the front desk. A government office or public-service counter needs a connection that survives normal working hours and has a named escalation path. A trading business needs messaging, banking, inventory, point-of-sale and tax services to work during the day. These customers may not buy the largest capacity, but they can value a provider that understands their premises and responds without a long remote call-centre sequence.
That is where ThekoNet's IT-service menu matters. Managed router, managed LAN, managed mail, application and website work, and network infrastructure services are not decorative add-ons. They give the company more reasons to be inside the customer's operations. Once a provider has configured a router, documented a link, placed a radio, solved Wi-Fi coverage and helped an office understand its traffic, the monthly access circuit becomes harder to swap out. The switching cost is not a legal lock-in. It is accumulated familiarity. A larger provider can offer a cheaper package, but it may not know which wall blocks the wireless signal, which computer hosts the local application, who approves payment or which staff member calls when the link drops.
There is a danger in that same intimacy. Support relationships can become unpriced obligations. A customer paying for internet may expect the provider to fix printers, Wi-Fi passwords, malware, old laptops, power problems and internal cabling. A provider that says yes too often becomes a general IT department without charging enough for the role. ThekoNet's best customers are therefore those that understand the boundary between access service and managed support, or those willing to pay for the wider support envelope. The public pages do not show whether support is bundled, separately billed or priced by contract. That missing detail matters because the difference between a profitable local ISP and an exhausted technical shop often lies in how clearly support work is scoped.
Procurement can help if it converts support into a formal contract. The Inaproc listing is not valuable only because it is a public catalogue page. It translates ThekoNet's service into specification language: duration, ratio, SLA, public IP, reports, contact service, trouble tickets, escalation, installation detail, network drawings and IP management. That kind of specification can protect both sides. The customer knows what it is buying. The provider can point to an agreed service boundary. But procurement can also delay cash, impose documentation work and create penalty risk if performance falls short. A small provider benefits when public buyers pay on time and value local support. It suffers when formal requirements absorb engineering hours without reliable margin.
Another sticky segment is training and education. The school MoU and MikroTik training references do not prove customer revenue, but they show an ecosystem where ThekoNet can be known by students, teachers and technicians. In a smaller city, that can become a recruitment and reputation channel. Technicians trained locally may become employees, contractors, customers or referrers. Schools and training events create trust because they put a company in a public, technical role rather than a purely sales role. The risk is that technical community presence does not automatically become recurring revenue. It must translate into contracts, support retainers, installation work or broadband accounts that pay reliably.
The hardest customer segment is the isolated or edge site. An island, coastal facility, hill-side premises or remote office may badly need connectivity but require expensive installation and repeated support. Such sites can be profitable if they pay enterprise rates or if several customers share the same route. They can be uneconomic if the provider underprices the installation to win the account. ThekoNet's wireless and fibre language suggests it can choose among media. The choice is commercial as much as technical. Wireless can reach customers faster and avoid some civil-work costs, but it may need line of sight, towers, weather resilience and careful alignment. Fibre can improve capacity and stability, but only if route density and physical protection justify the build.
This is why headline bandwidth is a poor measure of ThekoNet's position. A 10 Mbps dedicated enterprise link at the right site, with clear support terms and good payment discipline, can be more valuable than many low-end accounts that churn or consume field visits. Conversely, a 100 Mbps dedicated promise can damage reputation if backhaul, wireless quality or customer equipment cannot sustain the experience. The provider's commercial skill lies in matching the promise to the site: selling enough capacity to satisfy the customer, not so much that the support desk inherits impossible expectations, and pricing the field work honestly enough to survive the contract.
Market signals: small, technical and relationship-led
The informal signal around ThekoNet is thin but coherent. The Facebook page snippets show theko.id, company contact details, holiday posts and training references rather than a large consumer-review footprint. Spectrum Indonesia's MikroTik training page lists a September 2024 basic MikroTik training in Ternate, with THEKO Digital Solusindo as local partner contact and Theis Hoke / Satria phone references. SMK Negeri 2 Ternate reported a 2021 memorandum with PT Theko Digital Solusindo around the Computer and Network Engineering program, teacher industry exposure and curriculum adjustment; the article names the company's director and frames the partnership as part of vocational link-and-match with industry. A later school event for competency testing also lists Theis Hoke and PT Theko Digital Solusindo in a TKJ context. These are not customer satisfaction proof, but they do indicate local technical embeddedness. The market signal is that ThekoNet's brand is more visible in practical network training, support and local institutional relationships than in mass consumer advertising.
That signal fits the economics. In a small island city, a provider can acquire customers through local trust, school links, technical reputation, Facebook visibility, WhatsApp and direct business contact. It can also lose reputation quickly if support fails. A sparse public complaint footprint may mean customers do not use national complaint platforms, not that service is flawless. The useful inference is narrower: ThekoNet's public surface looks like a technician-led regional provider whose sales and retention depend on being known locally, not like a scaled consumer broadband brand with thousands of public reviews.
Regulation and strategic dependence
The regulatory frame matters because ThekoNet sells into a licensed sector and a government-buying environment. Indonesia's ISP market is not just a shopfront business. Operators deal with Kominfo permissions, APJII/IDNIC resource administration, numbering records, route authorization, procurement rules, tax, customer data obligations and service commitments. ThekoNet's public licence number, APJII membership and IDNIC resource records are positive because they anchor the company in the formal internet operations community. They also create ongoing obligations. A provider that promises public IPs, open ports, reporting and support to institutional customers has to maintain abuse contacts, routing information and a level of operational discipline visible to counterparties.
Strategically, small eastern Indonesian ISPs are part of national resilience even when they do not appear in national market-share charts. APNIC's Indonesia overview points to an active IXP environment, data-centre growth and submarine cable dependence, but also to persistent quality and access gaps outside major economic centres. A Ternate provider sits near the edge of that national system. It connects local customers to national exchanges and international networks. It supports local education, trade, government and business continuity. If local providers are weak, remote or eastern markets depend more heavily on a few national brands, satellite links or mobile networks. If local providers are healthy, they add redundancy, customer choice and field capacity.
This gives ThekoNet a strategic role that is larger than its address count. AS139379's two IPv4 /24s are modest. PeeringDB's traffic band of 100-1000 Mbps is modest. The APNIC Labs estimated customer-population trace for THEKO-AS-ID is small. But local importance is not proportional to global routing size. A provider with a few hundred or a few thousand active users can be material if it supports a school, a hotel cluster, a municipal office, a trading business or a remote site with limited alternatives.
The bull case and the caution case
The bullish reading is that ThekoNet has the ingredients of a durable local ISP. It has a legal and operating identity that reconciles across its site, APJII, APNIC/IDNIC, PeeringDB and procurement listings. It has its own AS and portable IPv4 resources. It publishes concrete service plans and enterprise prices. It sells dedicated service rather than only commodity home access. It has public support and helpdesk surfaces. It is locally embedded enough to appear in vocational school and MikroTik training contexts. It operates in Ternate, where local support and field coordination can carry a trust premium.
The cautious reading is that the public file also shows scale limits. The routed footprint is only two IPv4 /24s with no visible IPv6. PeeringDB's public profile is sparse. Public upstream and path diversity are not fully visible. The service site appears partly static and dated, with old article posts and mixed contact details. The official site claims 99 percent SLA while the procurement catalogue listing uses 98 percent; that may reflect different products, but it still requires reconciliation. No public source shows revenue, customer count, churn, support staffing, customer concentration, outage history, supplier contracts, fibre-route length, tower locations, ownership structure or current financial capacity.
The company's biggest economic risk is not that it lacks a public brand. It is that the support promise can outrun the customer base. If ThekoNet wins enterprise or public-sector accounts, each account can bring high monthly revenue but also demands documentation, escalation, maintenance and restoration. If it focuses on home and small-office users, each account may bring lower support intensity but less margin per site. If it stretches across many geographies, truck rolls and field visits become expensive. If it stays too concentrated in Ternate, growth is bounded by local demand. The right strategy probably lies in a disciplined mix: enough dedicated institutional accounts to fund the network, enough local broadband accounts to spread fixed costs, and enough managed-service work to deepen relationships without drowning the team in bespoke support.
Facts that would change the judgement
Several facts would materially change the assessment. The first is verified subscriber count by product type: home broadband, dedicated enterprise, public-sector service, managed IT and colocation/cloud. The second is a map of actual coverage, including fibre, wireless, tower/pole sites, access districts and any island or Halmahera-adjacent service areas. The third is upstream and backhaul disclosure, including supplier names, physical path diversity, capacity, failover and whether the IIX access promise is met directly or through upstream arrangements. The fourth is churn and support data: tickets per 100 customers, mean restoration time, late-payment rate, equipment recovery and customer complaints. The fifth is IPv6 and routing-security posture. The sixth is procurement performance: whether government catalogue visibility converts into real orders and timely payment. The seventh is ownership and leadership continuity, including whether public contact names still reflect current operational control.
Those unknowns do not make the company unimportant. They define the valuation boundary. ThekoNet is a real Ternate ISP with public resources, licensing traces and a service offer that matches the region's needs. It is also a small operator whose public evidence does not support claims of large scale, deep redundancy or financial strength. The most honest judgement is that Theko Digital Solusindo's value depends on whether it can make local support and dedicated reachability profitable before larger brands, satellite options or customer-service burden compress the margin.
Evidence register
- https://theko.net.id/ - Official ThekoNet site supporting company identity, Ternate address, service mix, 2019 formation statement, Kominfo licence number 283/TEL.02.02/2019, APJII membership claim, dedicated internet, fibre/wireless, managed service, colocation and cloud positioning.
- https://theko.net.id/?page_id=3878 - Official service page supporting broadband and dedicated enterprise plan details, published prices, public IP, MRTG traffic monitoring, SLA language, equipment loan and support claims.
- https://theko.net.id/?page_id=3625 - Official coverage/contact page supporting Ternate office location, working hours, helpdesk, phone and email details.
- https://theko.net.id/?page_id=3643 - Official contact page supporting PT Theko Digital Solusindo's internet service provider identity, Ternate address, contact numbers and website.
- https://www.apjii.or.id/anggota/penyelengara?legality=&name=&page=22 - APJII member directory supporting PT THEKO DIGITAL SOLUSINDO, brand THEKONET, ISP permission type, domain THEKO.NET.ID, Ternate Selatan address and APJII registration number 684.
- https://apjii.or.id/anggota/pengguna_ip?legality=&name=&page=64 - APJII IP-user directory cross-check supporting the same company, brand, domain, ISP status and Ternate address.
- https://www.peeringdb.com/net/22338 - PeeringDB record supporting PT Theko Digital Solusindo, also known as ISP Theko Net, AS139379, website override theko.id, looking glass URL, Cable/DSL/ISP type, two IPv4 prefixes, no IPv6 prefixes and 100-1000 Mbps traffic band.
- https://bgp.tools/as/139379 - BGP.Tools record supporting AS139379 active APNIC allocation, eyeball-network classification, two originated IPv4 /24s, no originated IPv6 and public website association.
- https://www.ip2location.com/as139379 - ASN cross-check supporting PT Theko Digital Solusindo, Indonesia, domain theko.net.id, 512 IPv4 addresses and the 103.142.200.0/24 and 103.142.201.0/24 ranges.
- https://www.ipxo.com/ip-info/103.142.200.0/24/ - IP allocation view supporting THEKO-ID, allocated portable status, APNIC source, Mangga Dua Ternate address, admin/tech contact and managed abuse contact.
- https://whois.ipip.net/AS139379 - IPIP ASN page supporting THEKO-AS-ID, PT Theko Digital Solusindo, APNIC registry, looking-glass URL and public prefix count.
- whois.apnic.net queries for AS139379 and 103.142.200.0 - primary registry evidence supporting AS name THEKO-AS-ID, PT Theko Digital Solusindo, internet service provider description, Ternate North Maluku address, AS7597 route policy record, 103.142.200.0/23 allocation and Theis Theis contact fields.
- https://katalog.inaproc.id/theko-digital-solusindo/thekonet-wireless-domestik-20-mbps - Government procurement catalogue entry supporting a verified ThekoNet wireless domestic 20 Mbps service in Kota Ternate, 12-month duration, 1:1 upstream/downstream ratio, 98 percent SLA, public IP, traffic reports, support, installation documents, radio/tower/router equipment and licence number 283/TEL.02.02/2019.
- https://www.smkn2ternate.sch.id/post/read/293/penandatanganan-nota-kesepahaman-mou-jurusan-teknik-komputer-jaringan-smkn2-ternate-dengan-pt-theko-digital-solusindo.html - SMK Negeri 2 Ternate report supporting local vocational partnership, TKJ curriculum/workshop context, PT Theko Digital Solusindo name and Theis Hoke director reference in 2021.
- https://www.trainingmikrotik.co.id/mikrotik-training/basic-mikrotik-training-mtcna--ternate-254.html - MikroTik training page supporting Ternate technical-training context and THEKO Digital Solusindo as local partner/contact for a September 2024 network training event.
- https://2025.apricot.net/assets/files/APAC945/idnicapjiiupdatecomp_1740469644.pdf - IDNIC/APJII update supporting Indonesia 2024 internet penetration, regional penetration split and IDNIC membership/resource context.
- https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/06/connecting-an-archipelago-exploring-indonesias-internet-ahead-of-apricot-2026/ - APNIC 2026 overview supporting the archipelago geography problem, remote/eastern access gaps, IXP ecosystem, data-centre context, submarine cable dependence, IPv6 and RPKI context.
- https://insights.opensignal.com/reports/2025/11/indonesia/fixed-broadband-experience - OpenSignal fixed-broadband report supporting Indonesia fixed-broadband market structure, major provider comparison and the role of Telkomsel/IndiHome, ICON+ and MyRepublic.
- https://en.antaranews.com/news/304593/indonesias-internet-penetration-hits-795-percent-trend-continues - ANTARA/APJII report supporting 2024 Indonesian internet penetration of 79.5 percent and broader adoption context.
- https://ternatekota.bps.go.id/id/publication/2025/02/28/547a02830ed6220514c23a25/kota-ternate-dalam-angka-2025.html - BPS publication page for Kota Ternate Dalam Angka 2025, supporting official local demographic and economic context used with public excerpts.

