{"id":43227,"date":"2022-04-04T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/telstra-buyout-of-digicels-pacific-mobile-networks-threatened-by-discriminatory-new-png-tax"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T04:58:45","slug":"telstra-buyout-of-digicels-pacific-mobile-networks-threatened-by-discriminatory-new-png-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43227","title":{"rendered":"Telstra buyout of Digicel\u2019s Pacific mobile networks threatened by \u2018discriminatory\u2019 new PNG tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The $100m tax on companies controlling more than 40% of market is \u2018arbitrary\u2019 and \u2018perplexing\u2019, says telco Digicel<\/p>\n<p>Digicel Group says it is considering legal options after Papua New Guinea imposed a $100m tax that the telecoms firm said had potential \u201cimplications\u201d for the planned AU$2.1bn ($1.57bn) sale of the Pacific\u2019s biggest mobile network to Australia\u2019s Telstra.<\/p>\n<p>Telstra Corp Ltd said last October that it would buy the Pacific operations of Digicel in a deal largely funded by the Australian government, seen by observers as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/01\/fears-in-papua-new-guinea-over-reports-of-china-mobile-buying-major-phone-carrier-digicel\">way to block China\u2019s rising influence in the region<\/a>. The operations include 2.5m mobile phone subscribers across PNG, Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa and Nauru.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/telstra-buyout-of-digicels-pacific-mobile-networks-threatened-by-discriminatory-new-png-tax\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $100m tax on companies controlling more than 40% of market is \u2018arbitrary\u2019 and \u2018perplexing\u2019, says telco DigicelDigicel Group says it is considering legal options after Papua New Guinea imposed a $100m tax that the telecoms firm said had potential \u201ci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,1545,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-telecommunications-industry","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43668,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43227\/revisions\/43668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}