There is concern in Vanuatu that an influx of foreign media programming on a proposed new mobile television network will decimate local culture and custom. Earlier this month the chairman of Irish-based mobile phone company Digicel met with Prime Minister Joe Natuman to discuss a proposal for a mobile TV network that would introduce more than 50 new channels into Vanuatu. Programs would be viewed on people's mobile phones. The proposal has senior cultural figures worried.
Fears mobile TV will decimate Vanuatu culture
ABC Radio,
24 September 2014, Vanuatu
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