Further to the roll out of its asset realisation programme (‘ARP’), introduced in March 2019, MTN Group has confirmed it has received regulatory approval for the disposal of its stake in ATC Ghana. This follows the company’s announcement on 11 March 2020 reporting its 2019 annual results and the conclusion of the disposal of its...
MTN Ghana delivered strong double-digit growth in nearly all business indicators for the year ended 31 December 2019. This buoyant growth largely came from voice revenue (up 19.4%), data (up 32.5%) and Mobile Money (MoMo) (up 28%). MTN Ghana’s success during the year is further illustrated by subscriber growth, which increased by 12.3% to 22.6...
In extension of its plans to focus more on the highly competitive European market, Vodafone Group Plc is handing over the control of Vodafone Ghana to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Vodacom Group Limited. This will take effect from April 2020. The move has now reignited speculation over Vodafone Ghana’s plans to list. In addition to...
On the sidelines of the CyberTech Global 2020 conference held in Tel Aviv, Israel, from January 28 to 30, Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, who led a delegation from Ghana to the meeting, signed two cooperation agreements. The first, signed with the Israeli Minister of Communications David Amsalem, relates to the fields of telecommunications, posts and...
Vodafone Group will hand over management of its Ghana unit to the UK carrier’s separately listed South African division in April, the latest step to bring the company’s operations on the continent under one roof. Johannesburg-based Vodacom Group will take responsibility for the West African business alongside other units including Tanzania, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of...
Vodafone Ghana has announced that it has acquired Vodacom Group’s entire stake in Vodacom Business Ghana (VBG) for an undisclosed price. Vodafone Ghana will assimilate VBG’s operations into its existing business, to provide a smooth transition for existing clients and employees. Vodafone and Vodacom will continue to collaborate in Ghana through a pan-African partnership model...
Mobile phone operator MTN Ghana has been fined more than 110,000 cedis ($ 19,500) by the National Communications Authority (NCA). The telecom regulator accuses him of not having provided him, within the time limits, the required report on the numerous disturbances recently recorded on his telecom network. The sanction paid by MTN Ghana was established according...
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has announced that its members will stop the upfront deduction of the Communication Service Tax (CST) from customers’ bills with effect from 26 November 2019. In a statement, the Chamber said it will reconfigure its systems so that customers are not charged the 9% CST when they top up their mobile phone...
Over a period of 18 months, Vodafone Ghana and MTN Uganda will work with Fairwaves Inc., iSat Africa and NuRAN to test new mobile internet connectivity solutions for unconnected rural communities in Africa. This project is an initiative of the GSMA through its Connected Society Innovation Fund for Rural Connectivity that awarded grants of up...
The CEO of Vodafone Ghana, Patricia Obo-Nai, has issued a statement saying that for Ghana’s digital market to grow, the government must refrain from taxing mobile money operations. She said that the taxing of mobile money operations would only discourage its usage in the country and that this would be unhealthy for the growth of...
