Uneven Connections : A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea
In the first years of the 21st century, economic liberalisation began to transform telecommunications services throughout the Pacific Islands. Government regulators, corporate executives and everyday consumers hopefully imagined that opening mobile phone markets to competition would result in greate...
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2024
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