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Newsflash: FYI, Kokoda residents all the way down to Popondetta can now send and receive digicel mobile phone calls. This has been a long time coming but to all our guides, porters and their families the excitement is hard for them to contain.
Almost daily, we have been receiving phone calls at all hours of the day or night as they try out their new mobile phones. This morning at 6am the phone rang. I asked the reason for the phone call and was informed, no reason, just checking that his phone was working…haha
Digicel have also been selling their mobile phones for around the K40.00 mark so plenty of locals have been up at the Kokoda Station trying to get their hands on one.
Once the dust settles, no doubt they will soon realise the cost of owning such a phone as a K3.00 phone card will not go to far when they are calling Port Moresby or Australia.
For those of our trekkers who have handed out their telephone numbers, please be warned, you too may start to receive phone calls!
Services are provided by the following company:
Digicel Pacific Ltd.
Digicel is a mobile phone network provider covering parts of Oceania, Latin America, and the Caribbean regions. The company is owned by Irishman Denis O'Brien, is incorporated in Bermuda, and based in Jamaica.
It provides mobile services in 26 countries and territories throughout the Caribbean and Central America with more than six million wireless users. Meanwhile its sister operation Digicel Pacific to date (Jan 2008) operates in five markets in the South Pacific (Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu and Fiji).
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