Digicel Papua New Guinea plan on a roll out of 3G or Wimax mobile web service in the next 6 months. According to their product development manager it is not yet decided which technology will be selected for the service.
Their goal is to be PNG’s leading mobile data service provider. At the moment Digicel mobile web data is available on GPRS enabled handsets and Digicel charge this data at the rate of PGK1.99 per MB (equivalent to AUD$0.82/MB)
To compare this to what option we have in Australia right now – Virgin Mobile offer 3G web access plans AUD$15 for 1GB of data (AUD$0.015/MB or 4toia per megabyte)
Mobile Web services currently available in PNG for mobile web access:
Digicel Web Access – GPRS – PGK1.99 per MB, to GPRS handsets or Digimodem (USB)
at PGK2 per megabyte, Im not even going to try this one out…….
Telikom X’Cess – 3G-CDMA – PGK0.20 per MB, to X’cess EVDO (USB)
I picked up a Telikom Xcess CDMA modem from Telikom Mt Hagen a couple of days ago and did some speed tests around Kagamuga (Mt Hagen, WHP, PNG) using www.speedtest.net (with nothing else running in the background, and connecting to the Brisbane server).
The modem itself is an ADU-510c (pictured right), and came with a USB extender and software disk.
I had to install run it on Windows 7 in compatibility mode for Windows XP.
Results from speed tests so far: (fastest download – 2270kbps at POM International airport)
May 25 Tuesday 530pm
Kagamuga Airport, Mt Hagen
Download – 40Kb/s Upload – 10kb/s
latency 453ms
May 25 Tuesday 545pm
Kagamuga Airport, Mt Hagen
Download – 310kb/s Upload – 10kb/s
latency 276ms
May 25 Tuesday 6pm
Kagamuga Airport, Mt Hagen
Download – 40kb/s Upload – 10kb/s
latency 1333ms
May 25 Tuesday 850pm
couldnt connect – verifying, terminated
May 27 Thursday 410pm
Raining
Kagamuga Airport, Mt Hagen
Download – 350kb/s Upload – 40kb/s
latency 244ms
May 27 Thursday 415pm
Raining
Kagamuga Airport, Mt Hagen
Download – 710kb/s Upload – 50kb/s
latency 244ms
May 27 Thursday 420pm
Raining
Kagamuga Airport, Mt Hagen
Download – 850kb/s Upload – 50kb/s
latency 284ms
May 27 Thursday 600pm
Kagamuga Airport, Mt Hagen
Download – 980kb/s Upload – 60kb/s
latency 229ms
May 27 Thursday 610pm
Kagamuga Airport, Mt Hagen
Download – 1290kb/s Upload – 60kb/s
latency 224ms
May 27 Thursday 710pm
Kagamuga
Download – 320kb/s Upload – 50kb/s
latency 235ms
May 27 Thursday 745pm
Kagamuga
Download – 860kb/s Upload – 50kb/s
latency 206ms
May 29 Saturday
Mt Hagen Squash Club
Time Dwn (kbps) Up(kbps)
400pm 1240 50
405pm 540 50
410pm 1460 60
415pm 1160 50
425pm 1740 60
May 30th
POM International Terminal
515pm 1430 70
520pm 1870 80
530pm 2270 80
