Mobile phone provider Digicel PNG plans to launch its own multi-station television service later this year. The move is the latest in a series of strategic moves to transform the mobile phone company into a broader based media company in Papua New Guinea.
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Construction of Papua New Guinea’s national broadband network is progressing, with major milestones set be reached by mid 2015, according to technology consultant Sundar Ramamurthy, who is assisting the PNG government’s Independent Public Business Corporation on the project.
The dream of high speed broadband in Papua New Guinea has taken a step closer, with the completion of a fibre-optic cable connecting Gulf Province with the ExxonMobil-run PNG LNG plant, 20km north of Port Moresby.
Hopes are high in Papua New Guinea’s telecommunications industry that internet services are finally about to become more accessible and more affordable.