Fiji telephone rates on par with other developed countries?

Telecom Fiji Limited says that its telephone rates are on par with other developed countries and are much cheaper than those of island neighbours including Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and the Cook Islands. The company was responding to a report titled, 2007 Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in the South Pacific Islands, which said that penetration rates of telecom services in the South Pacific remained comparatively low and that basic telecom services remained relatively expensive.