South Pacific - Outcomes Oceania Com Conference

Synopsis

The first Oceania Com conference brought together 125 people from ten countries in the South Pacific. The conference was organised by London-based Informa; BuddeComm arranged the conference program and chaired the event. The region is the most remote in the world, with 22 of the island countries only covering 3.5 million people. Economic growth for this region is only possible through participation in the global economy. Infrastructure is a very urgent problem. Telephone call costs are amongst the highest in the world and Internet penetration is amongst the lowest. Changes are however occurring rapidly in some islands, and in fact the region has one of the highest growth rates in mobile in the world.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Key outcomes of the conference
• 3. Government support
• 4. South Pacific Challenges
• 5. Papua New Guinea
  • 5.1 Mountains, jungle and landholders
  • 5.2 Nation connected by 2020
  • 5.3 The competition quarrels
• 6. Fiji
• 7. Norfolk Island and Niue
• 8. Samoa
• 9. Vanuatu
• 10. New Zealand
  • 10.1 From laggard to leader
  • 10.2 Starting with LLU
• 11. Australia
  • 11.1 Australia needs to follow New Zealand
  • 11.2 Separation also a win for Telstra
• 12. Infrastructure
  • 12.1 Next Generation Telecoms
  • 12.2 Next Generation Mobile
  • 12.3 Satellite at $100,000 per Mb
  • 12.4 Exclusive at Oceania Com – launch of east-west Pacific cable
  • 12.5 WiMAX
• 13. South Pacific reports