Denis O'Brien's mobile phone company Digicel has acquired Telecom Samoa as it expends further into the Pacific region.
Digicel Samoa, with its local partner CSL Mobile, is to launch a GSM network in the country next month, which will provide at least 80% population coverage.
Telecom Samoa's existing subscriber base of approximately 30,000 subscribers will be offered an easy transfer across from their old network to the more advanced GSM network.
