Mobile

Exciting smartphone offer for prepaid users!

You can now buy any smartphone from any Digicel phone outlet nationwide and get 1 gigabyte (GB) of free data per month, for 6 months.

Existing smartphones users on any network can also buy a new SIM to take up this offer, provided that they have not used that smartphone on the Digicel network before.

Digicel Managing Director, Mobile, Shivan Bhargava, says he is thrilled to launch this first-of-its-kind promotion in PNG.

Digicel launches new 1Tok Combo plans

It will be available to customers across the country today (November 1).

Digicel’s #1TOK Combo plan will offer prepaid customers three attractive inclusions - Double Talk Time, Free Data and Free SMS across 10 new plans, making it easier and more affordable for Digicel customers to keep in touch with their friends and family nationwide.

The #1Tok Combo plan gives customers more daily, weekly and monthly plan options. The November offer will be available by dialing short code *675#.

Mobile and Youtube boost Google parent Alphabet profits

Revenue in the third quarter rose to $22.5bn (£18.5bn), from $18.7bn a year earlier.

Net income for the quarter was $5bn, up from $4bn a year ago.

Alphabet, along with Facebook, dominates the fast-growing mobile advertising market.

Google's total ad revenue rose 18.1% to $19.82bn in the third quarter, accounting for more of its revenues.

"We had a great third quarter," Alphabet chief financial officer Ruth Porat said in the earnings release.