services than those provided by 3G. The rest of the islands are being progressively covered under the Mobile Roll-out Project funded by the World Bank, although this is not yet fully funded. Where it is feasible to do so, priority will be given to improving mobile service coverage in areas important to the development of tourism. E-Commerce services and electronic banking cannot be established in Outer Island areas until Internet services are provided. 6.1.2 Prices Following the privatisation of TSKL, mobile calling prices were extensively restructured. One of the main benefits of this restructuring was that the per minute price for calls is now uniform throughout the country, whereas previously there were higher charges for calls over greater distances, such as form South Tarawa to Kiritimati and the Outer Islands. For example, the price of calling between Tarawa and Kiritimati was 80c/min but is now reduced to the local call rate of 26c/min in peak traffic periods and 18c/min for off-peak calls. There were also significant international call price reductions to popular destinations. For example, calls to Australia and New Zealand were reduced from $2.80 to $1 per minute. There were some ups and downs for other call prices. With OceanLink’s entry into the market as a competitor to ATH, there is now some competitive pressure on prices. For example, OceanLink is now charging only 15 cents per minute for calls between customers on the OceanLink network and offpeak rates of 12 cents per minute. This is very favourable compared with the ATH price for calls on its network of 26 cents per minute at peak periods and 18 cents per minute for off-peak calls. Now that OceanLink has declared its pricing table for data use, there has been some downward price movements for data from both OceanLink and ATHKL. OCEAN LINK LIMITED ATHKL Bonus Price Data (MB) (MB) Valid for Daily $2 $4 200 600 100 1 Day Weekly $5 $6 $7 450 800 1000 100 100 300 Monthly $20 $30 2800 4096 Plan Plan 1 Month 1 Month Data (MB) Valid for Daily $2 $3 300 450 1 Day Weekly $5 $6 $9 750 1024 1536 7 Days 7 Days 7 Days $15 $19 $30 2848 3072 5120 1 Month 1 Month 1 Month VS 7 Days 7 Days 7 Days Price Monthly Table 2: Recent data plan prices for the two mobile operators. Kiribati National ICT Policy 2019 11