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| | PC World - Can You Use Your Cell Phone in Paradise? |
 | | In a market worth a combined $1.8 billion a year, the most advanced islands are the farthest outposts of the European Union--the French territories of New Caledonia and Polynesia, where mobile phone penetration has reached 30 percent, Budde said in the report. |
 | | New GSM networks were launched during 2002 in the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga, and Vanuatu, while Kiribati is set to launch its first cellular network--GSM upgraded to GPRS--in early 2003, according to Budde's report. |
 | | In the U.S.-controlled territories of Guam and the Northern Marianas, fixed-line teledensities are between 50 percent and 60 percent, but fall as low as 2 percent in the countries of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. |
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