Telecoms news from Fiji

Fiji Enables Payment of Criminal Fines by Mobile Phone

Fiji's Judicial Department is to allow the payment of traffic and criminal fines imposed by the courts through Vodafone's M-PAiSA mobile payment service. ...more.

Vodafone Fiji Enables Electricity Bill Payments by Mobile Phone

Vodafone Fiji has expanded its M-PAiSA mobile banking service to allow payments to be made for domestic electricity services. ...more.

Vodafone Fiji Extends Mobile Payments to Housing Loans

Vodafone Fiji has signed a deal to expand its mobile payments service, M-PAiSA to allow local Housing Authority customers to pay their loans. ...more.

Digicel Testing Water Bill Payment with Mobile Money

Digicel Fiji has announced that its Digicel Mobile Money customers will soon be able to use the service to pay their Water Authority of Fiji bills. ...more.

Digicel to Start Mobile Money Services in Pacific Markets

Digicel Fiji has outlined details of its forthcoming mobile money service, which offers its subscribers a range of mobile financial capabilities including the ability to transfer money to friends and family nationwide, top up your phone and pay Digicel post-paid bills. ...more.

Seven New Grants From the Mobile Money for the Unbanked Programme

The GSMA has announced the details of a further seven grantees from the Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) Fund, which is administered by the GSMA Foundation. ...more.

Vodafone Tests Mobile Money Service in Fiji

Vodafone Fiji yesterday started pilot testing its much awaited M-PAiSA Mobile Money Transfer service. ...more.

Digicel Group to Buy its Pacific Sister Company

Pan-Caribbean mobile network operator, Digicel Group (DGL) has announced that it is to buy Digicel Pacific Limited ("DPL"), a sister company that operates in 6 markets in the South Pacific for approximately US$825 million. ...more.

Motorola to Expand Fijian WiMAX Network

Motorola has been selected by Unwired Fiji to design and deploy an end-to-end 802.16e-based WiMAX network to upgrade and provide increased capacity to the operator's existing network for expansion of network coverage and capacity. ...more.

Vodafone Fiji Launches 3G Coverage

Vodafone Fiji has launched its 3G network upgrade, just a few weeks after its local monopoly was broken by Digicel. In the first phase Mobile Broadband is available in the Suva to Nausori and Suva to Lami corridor. ...more.

Digicel Breaks Vodafone Monopoly in Fiji

Digicel Pacific has launched a US$70 million GSM network in Fiji - breaking the monopoly held by Vodafone. The launch of Digicel Fiji follows launches in Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu. ...more.

Vodafone Monopoly in Fiji Broken by Digicel

Digicel has won a mobile license for the Pacific nation of Fiji - breaking the long term monopoly enjoyed by Vodafone ...more.