Australia may finance buyer for Pacific mobile network Digicel to block China Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Australia may finance buyer for Pacific mobile network Digicel to block China Save Normal text size Advertisement China Mobile is firming as the most likely Chinese company to make a play for telecommunications assets in the Pacific in a move that would trouble Australiaâs national security agencies. Digicel, owned by Irish billionaire Denis OâBrien, is under financial pressure and looking to offload its mobile phone networks across the region including in Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.