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Communication List of Categories
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- Where can I find out about mobile telephones in PNG?
- Can you explain the mobile phone situation thanks. Is it costly making calls and ringing Australia. What do you recommend, staying there for approx 1 year, thanks.
- Where can mobile phones be used in PNG?
- Are there any plans to expand the Mobile Phone Network?
- Do you have Post Paid Mobile Phone Service in PNG, and what is the Monthly Service charge?
- When was the Department of Post and Telegraph established in PNG?
- When did the Department of Post and Telegraph become Post and Telecommunication Corporation?
- When was the Post and Telecommunication Corporation split up?
- Who was the first person to run Radio Madang?
- Is it possible to have a satellite telephone in PNG?
- internet speed?
- Who are the internet providers in PNG?
- What was VIG?
- What was the first medium wave radio station to operate in the Territorory P and NG?
- What year was radio station 9PA officially opened in Port Moresby?
- Who was considered to be the voice of the Anzac Day broadcast from PNG in the 1970's?
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- Where can I find out about mobile telephones in PNG?
Try the Bee Mobile pages at -- http://www.pacificmobile.com.pg/index.html also new entrant Digicel has a web site at -- http://digicelpng.com/
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- Can you explain the mobile phone situation thanks. Is it costly making calls and ringing Australia. What do you recommend, staying there for approx 1 year, thanks.
The PNG mobile phone system is currently (digital) GSM900 with limited global roaming capabilty.
If you already have an Australian mobile phone and it is not CDMA and it is not locked to an Aussie Telephone Supplier then I suggest you buy a "B Mobile" startup kit for K25 (About AUD12). This will give you K10 worth of calls and a PNG mobile phone number.
There are different rates depending on the time you make a call. Contact pmc@tiare.net.pg for information on rates. Visit their web site - a tariff page is located at http://www.tiare.net.pg/prepaid_tariffs.html
If you have the correct account with Optus and / or Telstra in Australia then you can use SIM's from those companies in PNG for short term but it would be cheaper to get a SIM from the local telephone provider in the long run.
Also new entrants Digicel -- http://digicelpng.com/ --and Greencom may have something to offer except they do not currently integrate with the Telikom fixed service network. It was supposed to have happened early Feb 2008 but has been delayed.
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- Where can mobile phones be used in PNG?
Mobile phone covereage is extremely limited in PNG. And where you have coverage it can be very poor. The "Bee Mobile" Network (GSM900) only cover the PNG side of main Island of New Guinea and then only in Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Goroka and Mount Hagen. (May 2005)
It is expanding and I believe that Rabaul, Buka and some other areas are now on line.(June 2007).
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- Are there any plans to expand the Mobile Phone Network?
Telikom / Bee Mobile, Pacific Mobile Communications in the face of competition from two other providers (Digicel -- http://digicelpng.com/ --and Greencom) is expanding the existing network along with the other two start up companies in a bid to retain customers.
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- Do you have Post Paid Mobile Phone Service in PNG, and what is the Monthly Service charge?
I believe this will be introduced soon. New entrants Digicel -- http://digicelpng.com/ --and Greencom also may address this issue.
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- When was the Department of Post and Telegraph established in PNG?
The Department of Post and Telegraph was established in 1955.
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- When did the Department of Post and Telegraph become Post and Telecommunication Corporation?
Post and Telegraph became Post and Telecommunication Corporation in 1982
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- When was the Post and Telecommunication Corporation split up?
Post and Telecommunication Corporation split up to become the PNG Telecom Technical Authority (PANGTEL), Telikom PNG Ltd and Post PNG Ltd under an act of Parliament in 1997.
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- Who was the first person to run Radio Madang?
Phil Charley ran the radio broadcasting station at Madang in 1971 after moving from Radio Eastern Highlands / Goroka
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- Is it possible to have a satellite telephone in PNG?
Yes. It is possible to buy handsets and use these as an emergency back up or for access to the telephone system in remote locations.
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- internet speed?
A simple answer is very S L O W.
Telikom PNG are in the process of rolling out ADSL but for most users a 64K or 128K leased line is all that you can expect. Dial up users often suffer horendous connection speeds but the infrastructure is not there for anything faster.
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- Who are the internet providers in PNG?
The Internet Service Providers come under the unmbrella of a fully owned Telikom Subsidiary -- Tiare.
Originally there were five Internet Service Providers distributing the bandwidth allocated by Tiare. This has been reduced to four. The four surviving ISP's are -Daltron -- http://www.daltron.com.pg
Datec -- http://www.datec.net.pg
Global Technologies -- http://www.global.net.pg
Online South Pacific -- http://www.online.net.pg - DataNets
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- What was VIG?
VIG was the spark gap radio station set up in 1913 by AWA. It was reconstructed in 1921 with valve transmitters. From 1935 VIG relayed on short wave the commercial programming from its sister station 4PM.
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- What was the first medium wave radio station to operate in the Territorory P and NG?
It was 4PM and it came into operation at 4pm on the 23rd of October 1935. The station was officialy opened by Sir Hubert Murray. It was closed during the Second World War. (4PM was operated from Port Moresby by Amalgamated Wireless of Australia)
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- What year was radio station 9PA officially opened in Port Moresby?
It is believed that it was opened by General Douglas MacArthur and the Ausatralian Broadcasting Commission Director-General, Lieut-Colonel Sir Charles Moses on the 24th of February 1944.
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- Who was considered to be the voice of the Anzac Day broadcast from PNG in the 1970's?
It was Sevese Oipi Morea from Vabukori. He was the voice of the Anzac Day broadcast from Port Moresby in the 1970's on Australian Broadcastin Commission (ABC) Radio in Port Moresby through 9PA,and the short wave stations VLT and VLK. He later went on to become a Speaker of Parliament.
He was also the voice behind the Post and Telegraph's "Talking Clock".
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Created 1 May 2002
Updated 21 Jun 2008
Updated 21 Jun 2008
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