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Once this pre-paid credit is used up, the employee will have to pay for the cost to top up<br />
their mobile credit account. The widespread use of mobile phones as shown in Figure<br />
5.1 only indicates that most employees have their own personal cell-phone.<br />
Cell-phones with GPRS/EDGE technology are new and most government employees<br />
indicated that though the feature is enabled in their phones it was hardly used. As<br />
presented in Figure 5:2, mostly top management have cell phones with GPRS/EDGE<br />
technology. The graph only shows employees who have been issued with work cell<br />
phone.<br />
None<br />
All Staff<br />
Admin Staff<br />
Field Staff<br />
Junior Management<br />
Middle Management<br />
Top Management<br />
Figure 5:2 Deployment of cell phone (GPRS/EDGE)<br />
Cell Phone (GPRS/EDGE)<br />
0 % 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 % 50 %<br />
At the time of conducting the interviews and survey, 2G and 2.5G was the mobile<br />
network currently servicing the country as provided by the two main services providers<br />
Digicel and TVL. It is expected that the 3G network will soon be deployed as the<br />
advancement in mobile technology means that most cell-phones today are capable of<br />
utilising the power of 3G. This advancement may greatly reduce the difference between<br />
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