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thereby and thus to deliver better m-Services. In addition, coordination efforts should
not only be made at national level; the six provinces and local districts are just as
important as the national government and they are to be considered while addressing m-
Government solutions in order to avoid any duplication of effort, and to make use of the
existing resources, however limited they are. It is hoped that the challenges will be
addressed once the government has in place a system that will coordinate all its ICT
services.
Legislation is said to be one of the biggest obstacles that can affect the process of
development. The government of Vanuatu seems to be in a good position to realise the
importance of making necessary adjustments to the policies that govern the
telecommunication industry in order to keep up to date with the advancement in
technology. It is important that rules or policies defined keep up with the change in
technologies field of wireless and cellular communication. The changes recently made
to the required legislation show that the government is ready to address such issues. As
a result Vanuatu now has an open market in the telecommunication industry.
During the interviews a respondent pointed out at one of the obvious and important
limitations that would hamper the service delivery not only by m-Government but also
e-Government, and that is the lack of bandwidth. The current 2 megabit bandwidth
cannot support all MWTs functionalities such as live video streaming and video-
communication. It is believed that this has been addressed at the initial phase of the
development of the current e-Government project. While discussions about the
possibility of integrating m-Government as part of the e-Government are on-going, it is
an important area that must be improved in the near future. The current e-Government
infrastructure deploys underground fibre optic cables that connect all government
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