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Tag - Telecommunications

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, 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, 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, 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, Heather Horst
September 25, 2020
Divine Word University students using their mobile phones (Mathew Kau)

No change in mobile internet prices in PNG

by Amanda H A Watson, Picky Airi, Moses Sakai
July 30, 2020
Credit: Michelle Rooney

Mi gat Y: Is Digicel PNG’s loan scheme predatory?

by Michelle Nayahamui Rooney, Martin Davies, Stephen Howes
May 25, 2020

Deactivation of mobile phones in Papua New Guinea imminent

by Amanda H A Watson
December 19, 2019
Credit: Amanda Watson

A tax on mobile phones in PNG?

by Amanda H A Watson, Rohan Fox
May 16, 2019
Credit: Oxford University Press and Juha Laitalainen

‘A village goes mobile’: mobile phones and social change

by Amanda H A Watson
January 29, 2019
Digicel customers registering their SIM cards, 31 July 2018 (Credit: Amanda H A Watson)

SIM card deactivation commencing in PNG

by Amanda H A Watson
August 1, 2018
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