Accra, March 4, 2020//-A 300 page-book titled: ‘Telecoms conversations: A History of Telecommunication Economics and MTN in Ghana’ has been launched in Accra with a call on government and regulators to liberate big companies to do more for the country.
The Board Chairman of MTN Ghana, Dr Ishmael Yamson who made the call at the MTN book launch, said if 10 big companies like MTN Ghana were to be operating in the country, the government would not go out to borrow.
According to him, MTN Ghana alone had led to the transformation of all sectors of the Ghanaian economy.
The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh added that the company had created 500,000 sustainable jobs in the country over the past 20 years.
The book
Touching on the book, he said: “This book captures the thoughts, memories and efforts of people that have interacted closely with the MTN brand”.
Mr Adadevoh was quick to add: “The book reinforces our vision and growth strategy as a company”.
MTN’s Vice President (VP) of Southern and East Africa and Ghana (SEAGHA), Ebenezer Asante who mooted the idea of the telecoms company publishing the book as part of its 20th anniversary in 2016, said: “It is the MTN can-do spirit that inspired the concept of the book”.
The book authored by Ivor Agyeman-Duah, a development specialist and a member of the International Advisory Board of the African Studies Centre for Oxford University, looks at the history of telecommunications from the Gold Coast to present day Ghana and provides readers with insight on how telecommunication can improve their lives.
It also looks at pre-independence of Ghana with focus on the economic history of the country- the era of the Economic Recovery Programme and the Structural Adjustment Programme in the early 1980s and the privatisation of state enterprises, among others.
Some of the chapters of the book include: An Architecture of Pre-Digital Super-Highway, An Economy Runs through the Glaciers, and MTN in Ghana, Settling among the Believers, Mobile Financial Services, Banking, Business-finance and Knowledge Economy, Rural Economic Growth, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
On sale
The Pacesetters edition of the book is being sold in Ghana, West Africa, Southern Africa particularly South Africa and others parts of the world. It is available on Amazon.
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