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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:40 AM
Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua has clarified the Government's decision last week to award a new Mobile Telecommunications License to mobile service provider, beMobile Company.
Dr Sikua said the Government-established Independent Evaluation Committee has reached the decision because it is apparent that major improvements in the quality, type and price of our mobile telecommunications services in the country. "It is time to make the benefits of 21st Century communications available to our population, businesses and government". "After consulting with advisors on the best way to do this, including the World Bank, RAMSI and others, we initiated a process over a year ago to introduce competition to our telecoms market," Dr Sikua explained. ...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:50 AM
The Evaluation Committee of Solomon Islands decided on Friday 11 December 2009 to award the country's first new entrant telecom licence to bemobile.
Bemobile will receive a 15 year licence to offer mobile telecom services in Solomon Islands, together with the right to use the required radio frequencies. Bemobile currently provides mobile telecom services in Papua New Guinea. It is supported by its shareholder, US fund GEMS, as well as by Trilogy International Partners. Trilogy International Partners has mobile telecom operations in Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Haiti and New Zealand and recently received the 2009 Award for Corporate Excellence from US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. The licence is to be issued...
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Monday, November 09, 2009 9:30 AM
Just months after the monopoly license given to Our Telekom was cancelled, government says it will announce the country's new mobile phone operator before the end of this year.
A committee appointed to screen applications from companies that want to compete in the mobile phone market in the Solomon Islands has begun evaluating the applications last week. The Evaluation Committee, established under the new Telecommunications Act 2009, has announced it received applications from three foreign companies. They are Digicel, Bemobile and Milestone Developments. Committee Chairman, Mike Hemmer confirms they have begun reviewing the applications and will be making further announcements in due course....
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Monday, November 02, 2009 8:41 AM
The World Bank has congratulated the Solomon Islands government on recent reforms in the telecommunications sector - to encourage new private market operators and increase competition.
One of the bank's managing directors, Juan Jose Daboub who has visited the country says similar reforms in other Pacific island countries have increased the number of telecommunication subscribers. Mr Daboub says he is confident the reforms in Solomon Islands will produce similar success. He says the World Bank Group is ready to support Solomon Islands in its commitment to undertake much needed reforms. A statement from the World Bank Office in Honiara says, Mr Daboub provided Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua with a memorandum, outlining areas in which the bank...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:35 AM
Parliament has passed the Telecommunications Bill 2009 bringing an end the dominance of Our Telekom in the local telecommunications market.
The bill sought to open up the telecommunication industry in the country to competition. Under the Bill, the provision of mobile services will be opened to competition in April 2010 while Internet Service will be opened to competition in April 2011. In his contribution to the debate Prime Minister, Dr Derek Sikua, has said the government gave in to a demand by Solomon Telekom for the sole communication license for 15 years, in or about 2002. Dr Sikua says the monopoly license locked the government into accepting a monopoly in the telecommunication sector. He...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:27 AM
Government has revealed that it will not fully introduce competition in the telecommunications industry until first April 2010
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:00 AM
Solomon Islands will, in 2010, have a new competitor in the telecommunication sector
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Friday, November 21, 2008 3:05 AM
One of Fiji's mobile companies, Vodafone Fiji, has launched the country's first 3G (third generation) mobile network, which is also the first in the region
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:48 PM
Digicel has become the first mobile operator to run transmission sites on coconut oil fuel, having successfully run one tower for over two months
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 3:43 PM
Mobile giant, Digicel, has been given the go-ahead by the Fiji government to begin operations in Fiji
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 5:42 AM
Digicel, the Caribbean mobile operator currently expanding in the region is looking to acquire a $70million loan to fund its expansion in the region
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:28 AM
Investment of US$35 Million brings Competition and Choice to the South Pacific Island
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Friday, May 09, 2008 4:46 AM
Popular reggae star, Shaggy, arrived in Tonga on Wednesday for his concert to mark Digicel's launch in the island kingdom
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