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For many years, GSM was the primary mobile technology for Vanuatu’s 300,000 people.
Recent infrastructure projects have improved access technologies, with a transition to 3G and, to a limited degree, to LTE. Vanuatu has also benefitted from the ICN1 submarine cable and the launch of the Kacific-1 satellite, both of which have considerably improved access to telecom services in recent years. Vanuatu’s telecom sector is liberalised, with the two prominent mobile operators Amalgamated Telecom Holdings (operating as TVL) and Digicel Vanuatu offering effective competition.
10 February, 2021, 12:01 am
Opposition MP s Aseri Radrodro (left with Ratu Suliano Matanitobua during the first Parliament session in Suva yesterday. Picture: SOPHIE RALULU
Fiji Airways, the Fiji Sugar Corporation, Fiji Pine Ltd and Air Terminal Services are not audited by the Office of the Auditor-General because of limitations under the Public Enterprise Act.
This was the comment made by Public Accounts Committee member and Opposition parliamentarian Aseri Radrodro. Speaking in the House yesterday during the debate on the 2015 Auditor-General’s Report, he also said minority government-owned entities which also did not come under scrutiny by the Auditor-General’s Office included Amalgamated Telecom Holdings and Fiji Ports Terminal Ltd.
Movers and Shakers
Easter Chu Shing is the new Deputy Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). Chu Shing has worked with SPREP for the past 10 years, originally as the Biodiversity Adviser and then as Director of Environmental Monitoring and Governance.
Zed Seselja is Australia’s new Minister for International Development and the Pacific. He replaces
Alex Hawke, who has been promoted to the more senior cabinet role of Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs.
New Caledonia s SLN nickel company has a new CEO,
Guillaume Verschaeve, who will have the challenging task of restructuring operations to avoid insolvency. He replaces Colin McGibbon, who was in the role less than a year.