Country already enjoying cheaper, faster internet

PAPUA New Guineans and businesses are already starting to enjoy cheaper and faster internet access in the country.
This follows news that its 4,700km fibre-optic submarine cable is on track to be delivered by the end of the year.
In the past, a 2Gb 14-day data bundle was retailed at K60. Today, a 30-day 10Gb data bundle costs only K55.
This means Telikom PNG 4G subscription charges are down by about 80 per cent.
Huawei Technologies (PNG) Pvt Ltd chief executive officer Jacky Xu, pictured, said: “Our vision is to deliver digital connection to every person, home and organisation for a fully connected, intelligent world.
“That is why we believe that it is everyone’s basic right to be digitalised and connected in this modern era.
“We are working hard here, hoping it (vision) will be realised in PNG.
“As Bmobile’s strategic partner, we admire our customer’s huge investment in connectivity.
“We are very honoured to be part of their mission towards a better connected PNG.
“Moving forward, Huawei PNG promises its full commitment in contributing to PNG’s Information Communications Technology (ICT) development.
“We will further increase our efforts and investment to enable our customers to enjoy the best and affordable network services, be it at home or an organisation.”
In a recent panel discussion in Port Moresby, PNG DataCo Ltd general manager for commercial services Une O’ome said the 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) platform cables being developed with Huawei would improve internet capabilities by 100 gigabytes per second (when completed and operational).
“It will be much better in comparison to what we have today, combining different technologies like sattle-lite, the old APNG-2 (Australia PNG Two) cable going from Port Moresby to Sydney and what we have going on the PPC-1 (Pipe Pacific Cable One) in Madang,” he added.