The National Communications Authority (NCA) announced on Friday that Nigerian telecommunications company, Glo Mobile (Gh) Limited has been awarded Ghana's sixth mobile licence. A statement issued by NCA in Accra said the licence is for 50.1 million dollars. The statement read: "Pursuant to the National Communications Authority's announcement on the issuance of a 6th mobile licence in Ghana dated 27th March, 2008 and its selection and award process, the Board of Directors on the advice of management has completed the process, which has ... Read More

Internet service providers operating in the country have accused the National Communications Authority (NCA) of instituting a regulatory regime that does not support fair and transparent management of the country's frequency spectrum. The ISPs, at the launching of a report on the state of the communication sector in Accra, said they have lost confidence in the national telecom regulator - to the extent that some of the members of the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA) have now decided to resort to court ... Read More

MTN Ghana Foundation has begun the 2008 edition of the 21 Days of Y’ello Care Programme. The programme, which was instituted last year by MTN Group’s CEO is carried out across all 21 operating units of MTN and focuses on community-development activities. The activity has been instituted by the MTN Group to encourage employees of MTN to be personally involved in community development projects. On Wednesday June 3rd, staff of MTN Ghana started the event by undertaking a road safety education exercise in some ... Read More

The Honourable Minister of Communications, Dr. Benjamin Aggrey Ntim, formally commissioned two Community Information Centres (CIC) in the towns of Yendi and Bimbilla, during a two-day working visit to the Northern Region. In his speech delivered during the ceremony at Bimbilla, the Minister stressed that if the large numbers of residents in the rural areas were left out of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) advances in the country, we would leave a large pool of potential wealth untapped. There was therefore a need ... Read More

An estimated 8.7 million Ghanaians used mobile phones as at the first quarter of this year but the number may go beyond 9 million by the end of the year, Kwasi Adu-Gyan, a director at the Ministry of Communications has said. According to him, the mobile telephony industry is growing steadily thus contributing to the economic expansion of the country. Speaking at the launch of the Mi range of phones in Accra yesterday, Mr. Adu-Gyan mentioned that the presence of Mi-phones will contribute ... Read More