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Niue had the world’s smallest phone company but the highest “penetration” on the globe, with almost every one of the island’s eight hundred households hooked up. Niue also had thousands of excess lines. It leased this surplus to Asia Pacific Telecom, which used the lines for the sort of 900 calls advertised in tabloid magazines and on late-night television. Niue Telecom was now the island’s largest generator of revenue.
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