Aspects of Mobile Phone Usage forSocioeconomic Development in Papua New Guinea
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2015
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Suwamaru, Joseph
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Canberra, ACT: Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
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Little data is available on mobile phone usage in
Papua New Guinea (PNG). Up to 2007, under the
government-owned Telikom monopoly, communities
within Papua New Guinea were inaccessible
due to limitations in communications connectivity
(Mitchel 2008). Telikom supplied fixed phon services while its fully owned subsidiary company,
B-mobile, provided mobile services. Telikom served
only 64,000 fixed phone subscribers while B-mobile
garnered a low 60,000 mobile phone users against
the total population of seven million (O’ome 2010).
At that time, the combined penetration rate of less
than 2 per cent was lower than the indicators of
many comparable developing countries.
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10.25911/5f1fffa1a8dc7