Thursday, July 10, 2008 – Port Moresby: Digicel, the fastest-growing mobile operator in the Pacific, today celebrates the launch of it’s new Digicel Business packages during the “Digicel Business Gold Event” at the Lamana Gold Club, Port Moresby. Digicel Business is a postpaid service for SME (small and medium enterprises) and large businesses. With the recent launch of interconnection between the Digicel and B Mobile/Telikom networks customers can call mobile phones across networks as well as fixed line numbers using Digicel making it an ideal offering for the corporate and business segment.

 

Digicel Business offers a variety of benefits such as, special rate plans with affordable call rates and SMS bundles, the lowest international call rates on the market as well as a variety of Value Added Services (VAS). The Value Added Services include “Group Talk” (CUG or Closed User Groups) which gives customers within a Group unlimited calling for a fixed monthly fee of as low as K55 enabling companies to manage their internal communication costs, “Call Conference” whereby up to 5 callers can talk to each other at the same time making it ideal for efficient business meetings saving on time and travel costs and “International Roaming” which allows the business customer to make calls whilst traveling abroad in 110 different countries including Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and the Philippines. All Digicel Business customers also have exclusive access to the dedicated Digicel Customer Care number “126”, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

Digicel Pacific Chief Operating Officer, Fiona McGloin, said of the new postpaid packages: “Digicel’s new Business service is tailored to meet the different demands of our business customers. We have dedicated key account Managers trained to help our customers choose the best plans and handsets to suit their business requirements and give advice on the value added services that best suit the needs of their businesses. Digicel Business is another step in Digicel’s commitment to provide its customers with innovative services at the most affordable price”

In addition to the new Postpaid packages Digicel also has a suite of new high end Nokia N95, 5310, 6500 handsets on offer with high end features like music player supporting MP3, 5 mega pixel camera, FM stereo radio, video player, up to 1 GB internal memory for music, images and more to suit the business customers needs. Please visit the Digicel website (www.digicelpng.com) for more details about Digicel’s new postpaid service and handsets.

 

Digicel is at the forefront of introducing cutting edge technology. Having introduced innovative services such as CreditMe/CreditU, local and international Call Me, DigiINFO and WebFLEX the new postpaid packages are another innovative product that will bring greater value to the customer.

 

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ABOUT DIGICEL

Since its launch in the South Pacific in November 2006, Digicel has become the fastest-growing mobile operator in the Pacific, with current operations in Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea. The company was recently granted a license by the Government of Fiji, and has commitments from several other countries in the Pacific.

 

Digicel has contributed to the 0.7% growth to the GDP[1] of Papua New Guinea since its launch as the second mobile operator on July 20, 2007.

 

Digicel is the largest operator in the Caribbean operating in 23 markets and rolling out new operations in Central America. The company is renowned for competitive rates, unbeatable coverage, and superior customer care, a wide variety of products and services, and state-of-the-art handsets.

 

Digicel is proud sponsor of several national rugby teams across the South Pacific including; Fiji Rugby, Digicel Fiji Sevens, Digicel Pacific Islanders Rugby Team and the Digicel Pukpuks. For more information, please visit www.digicelpacific.com.

 

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