Check your budget plans before doing projects in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Did you know it costs about US$8 for 3-minute phone call to PNG? So use skype: Yet even that costs US$1 per minute. It was quite a problem for us implementing a survey of 240 PNG-based enterprises, doing the appointment calls from overseas. We became a skype “frequent flyer”, spending over US$2,000. That was just one of many cost surprises (thanks, it would seem, to Australian cartels dominating the economy).

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