Telecom Company Incite won the tender to provide internet services to schools and health centers on the islands of Embrym, Pentecost and Malekula.
Project manager Marianne Berukilukilu said while mobile phone coverage in Vanuatu is at more than 90 percent, internet use is still very low.
She said the project would help in the government’s push to achieve its millennium development goals.
“More importantly, it will help create jobs. To create jobs in the rural community so that young people don’t have to leave the community, leave their families and go to Vila, go to Australia or go to any other city outside Vanuatu.”
