Papua New Guinea's utility has a payment scheme that allows customers to pay capital contributions in monthly electricity bills. The indicator shows that costs can usually be divided into 2 categories: a clearly regulated connection fee based on a formula or set as a fixed price, and variable costs for the connection that take into account the labor and material required where a new connection can be made directly to the low-voltage network, regulated and fixed fees represent a larger share of the connection cost in high-in come economies. In general, the higher the income per capita is in an economy the higher is the of regulated fees in share the total cost.