ARTCI signed a protocol in Accra between Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana for the effective implementation of ECOWAS regulations on roaming. Soon free call reception! The Telecommunications/ICT Regulatory Authority of Côte d’Ivoire (ARTCI) and the National Communications Authority of Ghana (National Communications Authority – NCA) held from February 20 to 22, 2023, at the NCA Tower in...
Fintech Cross Switch has obtained approval from the Bank of Ghana to operate as an Enhanced Payment Service Provider (EPSP). As an EPSP, Cross Switch Ghana says it will leverage its payments and technology infrastructure to digitise merchant payments, collections and disbursements for ecommerce, remittances as well as driving financial inclusion. This, as the payments...
MTN Ghana is the leader in the Ghanaian telecom market with 65% market share, according to the latest statistics from the National Communications Authority (NCA). By the end of fiscal year 2021, the company had recorded revenue of approximately $604.5 million. Ghanaian telecom operator Scancom Plc (MTN Ghana) recorded total revenue of 9.91 billion cedis ($776.5...
MTN added 3.3 million subscribers cementing its market position in Ghana and closing financial year 2022 with 28.6 million subscribers. MTN Ghana reported its financial results for the year ended December 2022 today, saying it navigated a challenging business environment to record strong performance. 2022 was a challenging year for Ghana’s economy, compounded by high...
The campaign to register SIM cards for Ghanaian telecom subscribers was supposed to end on March 31, 2022. The government had to postpone the deadline several times until November 30. Ghanaian telecommunications subscribers have until Friday March 10 to finalize the registration of their SIM cards or risk being disconnected from the network, the National...
MTN Group and Huawei are partnering to deploy an affordable connectivity solution, RuralStar, in Ghana, which provides online access to remote and rural communities. The two penned a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday at the Mobile World Congress to strengthen strategic cooperation in environmental, social and governance matters. With RuralStar, MTN says, the solution overcomes...
MainOne’s datacentre subsidiary MDXi Appolonia has received its Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute. In a statement released to the media, MDXi Appolonia said the milestone confirms its status as “the leading datacentre provider in Ghana” with four industry certifications – including the Tier III Constructed Facility certification, TCCF; the PCI-DSS...
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has completed 50% of its mobile connectivity programme in rural areas of the country, reports GhanaWeb. Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee earlier this week, GIFEC CEO Prince Ofosu Sefah revealed 1,008 of the 2,016 mobile sites being deployed under the Ghana Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project had been...
MTN Group will invest the equivalent of R18-billion in Ghana over the next five years, the mobile operator said on Wednesday, after the government exempted its Ghanaian unit from tax claims worth about R13.9-billion. The investment comes on the heels of the Ghana Revenue Authority exempting the company’s bill for back taxes earlier this month after the incident sparked...
MTN Group said a R13-billion tax bill it received from the Ghanaian government has been scrapped. Ghana’s decision came after “extensive and productive discussions” during a 21-day negotiation period between the West African nation’s authorities and the mobile phone operator, MTN said in a filing at the weekend. The decision to withdraw the tax bill came after the...
