Telikom PNG ready for broadband and shaping destiny
Dionisia Tabureguci Telikom PNG, snipped and re-shaped by a market forced to open to new competition not too long ago, is gearing itself to take on Papua New Guinea’s emerging broadband era. The fully state-owned telecommunications company falls in the portfolio of the Independent Public Business Corporation (IPBC), an entity set up in 2002 to independently hold the majority of state-owned commercial assets and to improve their commercial performance. Last month, IPBC managing director Glenn Blake met with Telikom PNG management and was told the telco had begun to formulate corporate strategies to capitalise on government initiatives flowing from its ICT policy and plans for a national broadband network. “It is important for Telikom, the country’s premier integrated telecommunications company, to continue to restructure and grow its business to provide improved services to the corporate sector and the general public,” Blake said. The government, he added, will support initiatives by T