EAP - The Pacific Infrastructure Challenge - World Bank (2006).pdf
EAP - The Pacific Infrastructure Challenge - World Bank (2006).pdf
EAP - The Pacific Infrastructure Challenge - World Bank (2006).pdf
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Figure 8.8: Annual Per Capita Investment Requirements for Mobile<br />
Connections to reach the Minimum Target<br />
$8.00<br />
Annual Investment Requirements in Cellular Connections per Capita (USD)<br />
$7.00<br />
$6.00<br />
$5.00<br />
$4.00<br />
$3.00<br />
$2.00<br />
$1.00<br />
$0.00<br />
Kiribati Marshall Island Papua New<br />
Guinea<br />
Samoa<br />
Solomon<br />
Islands<br />
Tonga Vanuatu St. Kitts St. Lucia<br />
Source: Castalia Research<br />
Figure 8.9: Annual Per Capita Investment Requirements for Mobile<br />
Connections to reach the Maximum Target<br />
Annual Per Capita Investment Requirements in Cellular Connections (US$) for 2000-2015<br />
$60.00<br />
$50.00<br />
$40.00<br />
$30.00<br />
$20.00<br />
$10.00<br />
$0.00<br />
Fiji Kiribati Marshall<br />
Island<br />
Palau<br />
Papua<br />
New<br />
Guinea<br />
Samoa<br />
Solomon<br />
Islands<br />
Tonga Vanuatu Dominica Jamaica St. Kitts St. Lucia<br />
Source: Castalia<br />
For the minimum target, Kiribati and Tonga do not have any specific mainline goals<br />
to reach by 2015, as they already meet the requirements. <strong>The</strong> same goes for Fiji and<br />
Palau for mobile connections.<br />
We use the minimal telecommunications targets for our estimate of the total<br />
investment requirement. We would emphasize that this is a conservative approach,<br />
and higher levels of investment in telecommunications are likely to be both<br />
commercially and economically justified.<br />
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