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Telecommunications & ICT
Welcome to ib.com's Telecommunications and ICT section. Islands Business publishes the Pacific Islands Telecom Association's (PITA) quarterly newsletter. In this online section, you can browse through recent news reports and articles on ICT that have appeared not only in the PITA newsletters but also our other publications. The section is regularly updated with telecom and ICT news from around the Pacific Islands region. Industries engaged in the telecom sector are invited to send in their news releases relevant to the Pacific Islands region.
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Cellular services provider—Digicel Pacific—has made its long awaited splash into the Pacific Islands region market with the acquisition of Telecom Samoa, Samoa’s sole mobile telephone services provider, last month.
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Sky Edge VSAT seems to be the answer to bridging the digital divide between urban and rural communities in the Pacific Islands. This satellite system, which consists of a small dish and modem, is simple to install, easy to operate, and runs on solar power. |
The showcasing of successful, homegrown Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects involving women was one of the highpoints of the annual Pacific Internet conference (PacINET 2006) held in Apia, Samoa, in August...
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“We need collective political will to cooperate on the communication challenges that we all share in this region," says Internet inventor and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist. Dr. Cerf visited the Pacific three times in the last two years. Islands Business caught up with him during his visit to Fiji and New Zealand. This is an excerpt from his interview in Wellington during the ICANN meet in March.
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