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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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