Photo: Chief Executive Officer Pradeep Lal
According to Vodafone PNG, the country's third mobile operator would spend K3 billion in the country, offering chances for Papua New Guineans in terms of growth, prosperity, job creation, and telecommunications affordability and accessibility an official said.
Regional chief executive officer Pradeep Lal said the telco (telecommunications company) was rolling out a 3G/4G+ network, and customers would experience much faster speeds and improved customer services.
“We have various other attractive and unparalleled daily, weekly and monthly bundles to suit every market segment.
“Our competitive pricing and product propositions are designed with low margin tariffs and high-value benefits with an overall value ranging from 30 per cent to 100 per cent when compared to competing offers in the market.”
Lal said introductory free sims, which would have a preloaded value of 1GB data, unlimited on-net calls and SMS, valid for seven days, would be available from any of Vodafone’s 15 retail outlets and kiosks and over 100 roadshow outlets.
“On the business front, we have numerous solutions designed to facilitate more reliable connectivity to drive improved business effectiveness, efficiencies and cost reductions,” he added.
“Along with value-packed mobile and data bundles, shared and pay as you go plans, the suite of ICT products include wide-area networking, dedicated internet, cloud PBX, SD WAN, disaster recovery and cyber security to name a few.”
He said Vodafone planned to bring a suite of value-added services that had been highly triumphant its other markets that would help solve the challenges of PNG customers.
“Vodafone PNG is building a brand new greenfield network from the ground up and constructing all new towers.
“We initially had tower leasing and sharing discussions with both Digicel and Telikom/BeMobile, however, no arrangements were reached, hence our decision to construct new towers. We are launching with just over 500 base stations, covering Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Mt Hagen and Goroka. By Christmas, we intend to have 800 sites live, progressively expanding coverage to 22 provinces.”
Reference: Luma, Dale. The National (22 April 2022). “Vodafone investing K3bil”.
