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Tag - Telecommunications

Australian government gifts US$190 million to Telstra to buy Digicel

by Stephen Howes and Huiyuan Liu
April 21, 2022

No fall in mobile internet prices in PNG

by Amanda H A Watson, Picky Airi and Moses Sakai
April 19, 2022

Papua New Guinea: government, economy and society

by Stephen Howes and Lekshmi N. Pillai
March 16, 2022
A woman and a child talk to a man sitting under a Digicel-branded umbrella behind a small booth with signage that says "Charge your mobile phone here".

Australia buys Digicel, PNG’s mobile monopoly

by Stephen Howes
October 26, 2021
Julieto Soares selling pulsa on a street in Colmera, Dili (Aashna Jamal)

The human face of the internet in Timor-Leste

by Aashna Jamal
September 30, 2021

Mobile internet prices in Papua New Guinea: still no downward movement

by Amanda H A Watson, Picky Airi and Moses Sakai
March 18, 2021
Nigel Uyam operating a registration booth in Basamuk, Madang Province, September 2020

SIM card deactivation in PNG and financial inclusion

by Amanda H A Watson and Busa Jeremiah Wenogo
October 23, 2020
Signage on a police vehicle in Lae (Judy Putt)

Emergency phone services, part two: the police in Papua New Guinea

by Judy Putt, Doris Mararang and Amanda H A Watson
October 13, 2020
A mobile telephone in use at the Goroka show in 2015 (Lesley Watson)

Emergency phone services, part one: challenging contexts

by Amanda H A Watson and Judy Putt
October 9, 2020
A local guitarist on a mobile telephone screen, Irupara village, Central Province, PNG, 2019 (Denis Crowdy)

Local music sharing via mobile phones in Melanesia

by Amanda H A Watson, Denis Crowdy, Cameron Jackson and Heather Horst
September 25, 2020
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