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by PNG CWU Who says Mahesh Patel will settle down? This Fijian/Indian who claims to be the best Chairman in the South Pacific is still spinning his wheel of fortune in the daily operations of Telikom PNG. His Motive? To grossly devalue Telikom PNG and make it underperform in the face of competition, take this as a genuine case to NEC and recommend for TPNG to be made insolvent. Then, float the company in open market, and who buys it? Mahesh Patel and his cohorts who are closely associated with Peter O’Neil. They will then shift the gateway from PNG to Fiji, and there goes PNG! Lately, here is how he planned to do that: On the 18 th of April, the Telikom Management was under pressure from Mahesh Patel to do a submission for a Board Meeting to be held the very next day to approve a price fixture for Telikom 4G mobile in favour of Bemobile and Digicel. The Management submission contained recommendations for Telikom Board to approve a cut-off price for Telikom 4G Voice and Inte

by : Market Observer Recent scandal in Fiji regarding tens of Millions of 'Corporate Signage kickbacks ' contracts for  Vodafone Fiji has prompt me to asked if Bemobile has actually benefited with its 'market agreement ' with Vodafone. Since the Agreement was signed in July 2014, we have not seen any increased in quality services from Bemobile but rather fruitless attempts in branding. What also have seen is more visibility of Vodafone Branding then of Bemobile. We tend to wonder if the 'Marketing Agreement' is a Vodafone branding takeover and Bemobile being just another used vehicle by the corporate heavies who walks away with huge kickbacks and commissions for brokering this deal. It's all coming out in Fiiji, maybe ICCC might want to check on Bemobile also --- Vodafone and Bemobile announced Market Partnership agreement in PNG 10 July 2014 Vodafone Group Plc (“Vodafone”) and Bemobile Limited (trading as “bmobile”) today