The Ghanaian government, through the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), has constructed 1,003 rural telephony sites under the Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project, Graphic reports. Presenting the 2023 Budget Statement and Government Economic Policy to parliament, Minister of Finance Ken Ofori Atta noted the deployments had benefitted 1,353 rural communities, which now...
In compliance with a directive issued by the National Communications Authority (NCA) earlier this month, MTN Ghana has announced that from 1 December it will begin fully disconnecting any subscriptions that have not completed the SIM registration process. Noting that it was committed to the registration exercise to build an accurate customer database and help minimise fraud, the operator...
The mobile telecoms industry in Ghana paid taxes, other payments and remittances to the tune of ¢4.3 billion to the government and its allied agencies in 2021, the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has revealed. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Chamber, Dr. Ken Edem Ashigbey said the amount represents about 7.7 per cent of government’s...
Ghana’s Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that SIM cards that have been linked to ID cards but not undergone the second phase of registration will be blocked from accessing data services from 20 November and completely deactivated on 30 November. The Minister added an announcement will be made regarding measures to accommodate those...
Ghana is facing economic difficulties due in particular to high inflation. Telecom operators are exploring solutions to reduce the operational pressure on them. Telecom operator MTN Ghana has announced that it plans to increase internet data costs from Monday, November 14. The company warned its subscribers through an SMS that it sent to them on Thursday, November...
MTN Ghana is urging customers who have not completed their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card registration with the Ghana card to do so by 31st October 2022 to avoid their services being disconnected. It said in line with a directive by the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation, MTN may be required to disconnect the services...
Pan-African digital and infrastructure services company MTN GlobalConnect launched new Customer Success Centres in Ghana and Kenya, as part of phased investment in expansive plans for the region. Ghana has been identified as a key market. According to the operator these centres will include insourcing of Network Operations Centre and a new Service Operations Centre....
Fintech Africa Report from industry analyst and research firm, McKinsey has named Ghana as one of the fastest growing fintech markets on the continent with an annual growth rate of 15 per cent. According to the report, currently, the lion’s share value in the market, of approximately 40 per cent was concentrated in South Africa,...
The discussions initiated by MTN to obtain the 5G license in Ghana have still not been successful. The company that recently launched ultra-broadband in Nigeria wants to speed up the process. MTN Group is keenly interested in participating in any future telecom spectrum auctions for 5G in Ghana. Ralph Mupita, Chairman and CEO of the group, made...
The Ghanaian government has invested USD200 million to enable the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) to accomplish its rural telephony and digital inclusion projects across the country, Ghanaian Times reported. The project, which forms part of the government’s ‘Ghana Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project’, seeks to facilitate the provision of universal access...
