Honiara, Solomon Islands—Global UK-based telecommunications giant Vodafone will inch closer to its market ambitions in the motherlode of the Pacific mobile and data market with a historic deal set to take place in Port Moresby today.
Pay television subscribers in Tuvalu will have to pay almost five times more to continue receiving prime television programmes after Sky Pacific decided to shift its transmission satellite.
Most English teachers (secondary or tertiary) think that mobile texting is leading to a serious deterioration in the standards of English of their students. Some teachers are banning the use of texting language in students' written work.
The World Bank announced in mid-March the launch of a multi-million dollar strategy to “reform the telecommunications sector and boost access to mobile phones and internet” in the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority (NTA), which currently enjoys a monopoly in this area, says it supports reform, but ...
Using mobile telephones to leapfrog development initiatives through innovation has long been done in most developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia. Now, it is somewhat slowly taking root in the Pacific.
Capacity, Capability and Collaboration will prominently feature in this month’s Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Vanuatu has started public discussions on the fate of its country code Top Level Domain name (ccTLD) as its telecom regulator bids to take control over this national resource.
The issue of privatizing government services—or allowing competition—in the Marshall Islands has been debated on-and-off for two decades with little result.
Finally official in Fiji is the proposed sale by the Fiji government of its shares in FINTEL (Fiji International Telecommunications Ltd) to Amalgamated Telecom Holdings (ATH).
“…the most significant achievement of the meet was undoubtedly the updating of Article 5 of the International Telecommunication Regulations, which will play a tangible role in saving lives and assisting in the readiness and recovery process once disasters strike”
If new Information Communication Technology (ICT) is best understood by Pacific Islanders as texting on mobile telephones, updating Facebook, checking e-mails, hashtagging on Twitter, uploading videos on YouTube or downloading music from the Internet, then, as the saying goes: ‘you ain’t seen nothin’ yet’.
Industry body says telcos need to engage with OTT players to identify opportunities to add value, generate revenue from content.
Almost all communities in the Pacific region are touched in some way by information and communication technology (ICT)— whether ‘old ICT’ such as radio, telephone and television or ‘new ICT’ such as Internet and mobile phones.
The cards seem firmly stacked against optimism on the streets of Papua New Guinea at the moment.
AN analysis on trends in connectivity, access and latest price review will be available to members of the Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA) this month.
Fiji’s ATH is about to swamp Fiji’s telecommunications market with its presence, if Fiji’s financial and industry regulators approve an agreement it announced last month to buy a substantial stake in FINTEL.
Internet access is a human right, according to a United Nations report released last month.
Internet links between Niue and the outside world will now be more reliable—thanks to a new satellite dish installed on the island.
