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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 PNGBLOGS STAFF WRITERS   It seems ICCC is in bed with Telikom’s Chairman Mahesh Patel on the so called merger of Telikom, Bmobile and DataCo issue. A number of key points for the public to note here: Telikom Board’s term of office has expired. As such, Telikom effectively has no Board to act on its behalf at the moment until a new Board is sworn in. How can Mahesh Patel claim to be speaking on behalf of the Board when insider information has it that there has never been a Board Meeting convened for this purpose? He therefore is acting alone, and for whose interest? Clearly, if you link the dots together, it would be in the interest of the team: The Prime Minister Peter O’Neill , Mahesh Patel himself, John Mangos and Michael Donnelly , the ousted CEO of Telikom PNG. This article has it that Mahesh, the Chairman of Telikom PNG went into discussions with ICCC boss, Mr. Paulus Ain. How can he, Mahesh, discuss the merger while acting as the Chairman of another

by MICHAEL PASSINGAN PNG BLOGS has learnt that Prime Minister PETER O'NEILL has directed Kumul Consolidated Holding  (KCH) Chairman and O'Neill rubber stamp PAUL NERAU to engage the services former Digicel PNG CEO, JOHN MANGOS as a super consultant to the Public company in a bid to sell off TELIKOM and its subsidiaries to DIGICEL and you guessed it REMINGTON Group of Companies. PNGBLOGS broke a story today about the recent engagement of Mangos in a plot to sell off three of PNG's State owned Telcos Telikom PNG, B-Mobile and DataCo. T elikom has a good track record of being independent unlike Air Niugini or PNG Power, they have diversified their business into the areas of television (EMTV) and retail (DATEC). JOHN MANGOS is Peter O'Neill's puppet and a Digicel plant to take over the Communications Industry in PNG through the sale of TELIKOM PNG and its subsidiaries. He has been around Papua New Guinea after he was promised the role to sell off Telikom and ma

NIUGINI OUTLOOK The now infamous John Mangoes of PNG Power CEO fame was Digicel PNG CEO until the end of March. Mangoes competency at Digicel was questionable as Digicel service was frequently erratic and some things just seemed never to be fixed. But this past January, it was under Mangoes direction that the new Digicel customer service unit was establis hed under a returning Lorna McPherson and the much hated "no warning message before the voicemail charge" policy was finally done away with. At least that's what we thought. But the voice mail warning has come back on, with no advance warning, in the typical "we don't give a Sh!t about our customers" way. What happened to the supposed commitment to customer service? Enter Maurice McCarthy, another Irishman seeking to shovel as much money as possible towards Irishman Denis O'Brien, as he struggles under an overall Digicel debt of around USD $6 billion. The last 2 years of Digi