One of the Mamulka boys, Samuel, riding in my car kept trying to get through to someone on his cell phone every time we stopped. A company called Digicell from Ireland has revolutionized PNG communications in the last year with cell phone coverage that will soon cover the entire island. Supposedly, it’s already raised productivity in the country dramatically because people in rural areas can communicate effectively with each other for the first time in the country’s history. It’s strange to be walking down a garden path when someone’s cell phone rings and they start speaking in their indigenous language (PNG has about 800 separate indigenous languages). Instead of saying “Hello”, “kange?” is a popular way to answer the phone around here which literally means “boy?” but is probably more the equivalent of “What’s up kid?” Wireless internet available to anyone who can afford it is supposed to follow soon and then PNG may finally catapult into the 21st century.