Category: TECHNOLOGY
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More subscribers dump Tigo & Expresso
Telecom operators Tigo and Epresso made the most losses in the latest National Communications Authority (NCA)’s latest report on mobile voice subscription in Ghana. The report which covered the month of September saw all the mobile operators make gains except the two. According to the report mobile Voice subscriber base in Ghana grew from 29,531,488…
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Vodafone appoints new Corporate Communications Manger
Vodafone Ghana has appointed Ebenezer Amankwah as its new Corporate Communications Manager. His appointment took effect from the 17th of November, 2014. Ebenezer takes over from Gifty Bingley, who now heads Tigo Ghana’s corporate Communications wing. Ebenezer will be in charge of the telecom operator’s external communications as well as senior management profiling. He will…
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MTN restores services to Expresso
Largest telecom operator in the country MTN has restored services to Expresso. MTN cut services to Kasapa on the first of November this year after Expresso failed to honor its financial obligations to MTN. MTN’s CEO Serame Taukobong had earlier told Citi Business News it would not restore the services until Kasapa honors its financial…
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Mobile phone dealers welcome tax cut
Mobile Phone and Accessories Dealers Association (MPADA) has welcomed government’s move to remove import duties on smart phones. The dealers last October appealed to government through the Ministry of Finance to scrap the 20 per cent import tax on mobile handsets and accessories. Presenting the 2015 budget to parliament on Wednesday 19th November,2014, Finance Minister…
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Vodafone rules out cutting services to Expresso
Vodafone Ghana has told Citi Business News that it has no plans to cut services to Expresso. MTN and Airtel have all cut one way call services from Expresso over its failure to honor its financial obligations under the Interconnect Agreement. Expresso has declined to comment on the matter, despite a directive from the National…
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Goldkey begs NCA for more time
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has confirmed to Citi Business News that it has received a formal request from Goldkey Telecoms to extend the deadline for it to begin operations. The NCA had earlier this year issued a directive that all companies issued with a 4G LTE network license are to commence operations by the…
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Vodafone launches new call centre
Vodafone Ghana has officially taken full control of its call centre at high street in Accra after terminating its contract with Teletech Ghana Limited early this month. Vodafone Ghana in 2010 outsourced the call centre to Teletech, a South African company. This was to allow Vodafone concentrate on growing its customer base, improve its services…
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Vodafone to list on Ghana Stock Exchange
Vodafone Ghana has hinted to Citi Business News of its plans to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) soon. According to Vodafone Ghana its two main shareholders Vodafone group and the Government of Ghana are studying trends on the GSE to make the move. The first Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BOG)…
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Don’t compel telcos to list on GSE -Telecom chamber
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications says Ghana would be sending a wrong signal to investors if it compels telecom operators to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). According to the Chief Executive Officer of the chamber Kwaku Sakyi Addo the telecom industry is capital intensive and this makes it difficult for telecom companies to…
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Airtel dumps Expresso as cash war deepens
Telecom operator Expresso suffered yet another blow this morning after Airtel cut services to it for failing to pay monies it owes it. This is the second time within two weeks a telecom operator has cut ties with Expresso for failing to pay monies it owes under the Interconnect Agreement. Telecom giant MTN on the …