Reforms in the ICT sector, together with the installation of a major submarine fibre-optic cable in 2014, led to a significant decrease in Internet prices and helped connect the country to other regions in the Pacific (ITU, 2015). By 2015,62% of the EIF countries had established competition authorities. While mobile services in general tend to be relatively open, the ITU ICT Regulatory Tracker shows that fixed line telecom services remain under monopoly in several LDCs (Figure 9.3).