Telecommunication Industry News

All the Press Coverage over the Past Years.

 

May 2013

May 10 - Vanuatu to celebrate World Telecommunications & Information Day (WTISD)

May 7 - Journalist arrested for commenting on Facebook

May 3 - Vanuatu Media celebrate World Media Day

 

April 2013

Apr 26 - PM to officiate God TV Launch

Apr 25 - Careers & Orientation Program at Saralana

Apr 23 - Westpac Mobile Banking in the Pacific

Apr 10 - God TV to launch at end of month

Apr 10 - TVL celebrates new shop opening

Apr 5 - Digicel & IFC build cellphone solar charging stations

 

March 2013

Mar 28 - Digicel launches Customer Care on Facebook

Mar 28 - Local Providers expecting better Internet Performance

Mar 25 - Digicel facilitates video conference via Satellite

Mar 18 - Police charge 21 over online Child Abuse Network

Mar 18 - Online Registries critical to Pacific Sector Development

Mar 9 - North Efate not reachable due to Vandalism against TVL

Mar 9 - PM puts Vanuatu on the World ICT Map

Mar 2 - Broadband access can help bridge Educational Divides

Mar 2 - TVL introduces new Corporate Team

Mar 1 - Digicel announces latest winners of Promotion

Mar 1 - Ausaid makes available funds to develop ICT

 

February 2013

Feb 28 - Ecole Publique opens new Computer lab

Feb 28 - 50,000 exposed in ABC Website Hack

Feb 25 - Transparent mobile phone developed in Taiwan

Feb 19 - Expert Drafting Legal Cybercrime Framework

Feb 15 - First ever Cybercrime awareness for Customs

Feb 14 - ATM incident prompts Police Cybercrime Workshop

Feb 12 - PM urges hands on approach on future ICT risks

Feb 11 - Mobile Devices to outnumber humans this year

Feb 8 - PM calls for ICT Expansion

Feb 6 - Govt launches new ICT Policy Process

 

January 2013

Jan 30 - TVL Notice

Jan 30 - TVL network crash affects business houses

Jan 15 - TVL launches 3G + Mobile Internet Service

Jan 14 - Lowanatom School Internet with complete Computer Lab

Jan 8 - South East Malekula claims TVL Blackout

Jan 8 - Handset Makers scurry to join Year of the Phablet

Jan 6 - Phase 2 of Submarine Cable Completed

 

December 2012

MOU signed to improve ICT in schools

Vanuatu Establishes Internet Exchange Point

TVL sponsers VFF Academy

 

November 2012

Teacher's Views on TVL launching on Futuna

TVL Connects Futuna to the World

Youth TechCamp provides bright path for Pacific Internet Content

Digicel Launches 3G + Internet on Pentecost

Submarine Cable Link Deal Signed

Digicel launches 3G & Internet in Malekula

College Suspends Students over Incidents

Alan Horne - Leading the Way Forward

 

October 2012

Plan to save Lives & Reduce Costs agreed at ITU Telecom World 2012

Digicel's Latest Re-Designed Store opens

Worlds 1st 3D Printer goes on Sale

Rising Power of Social Media and its implications for Diplomacy

 

September 2012

Violence Helpline established in the Solomons

Mapping the Road Ahead

Family Health Toll Free line

One Laptop per child plan next month - Fiji

First of Digicel's Fishing Game Winner announced

Digicel Winners of Sports & School Cash Promotions

Pacific Media must adapt quickly to online Technologies

 

August 2012

Facing the Nation

NDMO refutes Digicel Claim of assisting Youths

Pornography by Mobile Phone growing in Pacific

Who's Afraid of Huawei?

Digicel assists Students lost in Forest

Yumi Toktok Stret - Social Media Forum on Facebook

 

July 2012

Digitizing of Valuation Zoning in Vanuatu's Capital

Private Satellite Led Growth

TVL Underwater Top Up

Vanuatu E-Government Launching

Advertising on Mobile Phones & Online Censorship

Barak Sope signs country to Private Satellite

Social Media in PNG Elections

Pacific Islands not ready for Cybercrime

 

June 2012

Digicel's 4th Birthday

Shefa Women Facebook Group

TVL Launches Mobile Internet

Prime Minister hands over Hope TV License

Onesua a Classic ICT Example

China looks to Boost Internet Controls

WAC Concern over Facebook Forum

Digicel Wheel of Fortune Winner

St Michel Science Students get Computers

Internet Governance access for everyone - UN Expert

 

May 2012

New Rules for Mobile Competition in Fiji

TVL Participation in World ICT Day

Bid to Halt Police Criticism Online

Digicel & Verifone Combine to Launch Service in Tonga

Is your Mobile Phone affecting your brain

More than 2500 people now employed in the telecoms sector

From Telex to Internet

 

April 2012

Professor compares Vanuatu to Mauritius

High Speed Internet by end of 2013

Strike at French Polynesia Mobile Phone Company

Vanuatu Government Info Article

TVL and Digicel Article

Digicel Customers Talk their money back

Digicel winners Toktok

Hope TV

Prime Minister supports submarine cable project

Public Abusing emergency Free numbers

SDA signs with Digicel

 

March 2012

Submarine cable Policy

Who is the Telecommunications Regulator (1)

Who is the Telecommunications Regulator (2)

Public Debate Article