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Tag - Telecommunications

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
25 September 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 and Moses Sakai
30 July 2020
Credit: Michelle Rooney

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

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

Deactivation of mobile phones in Papua New Guinea imminent

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

A tax on mobile phones in PNG?

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

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

by Amanda H A Watson
29 January 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
1 August 2018
UPNG students with their mobile phones (Credit: Amanda Watson)

PNG SIM card registration extension

by Amanda H A Watson
17 May 2018
UPNG students using their mobile phones (Credit: Amanda Watson)

PNG National Court case on SIM card deactivation today

by Amanda H A Watson
15 May 2018
Madang MP Bryan Kramer talks to media after the hearing (Credit: Amanda H A Watson)

PNG National Court interim injunction prevents SIM card deactivation today

by Amanda H A Watson
30 April 2018
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