Accra, Ghana//-MTN Ghana has restored 100 per cent of internet browsing capacity in Ghana after disruptions caused by damages to surface and undersea cable over two weeks ago.
The outgoing Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh disclosed this to shareholders at the company’s 6th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday in Accra.
According to him, four cables were affected in the disruptions with damages to two of those cables onshore, between Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal, saying some of those damaged cables include those on which MTN has its redundant capacity.
“But now we have restored all the capacity we lost to the disruption. We did this through rerouting traffic through other partners internally and externally”.
Mr Adadevoh used the occasion to assure customers that their browsing experience would be of the same quality as it was before the disruption, adding that engineers were working round the clock to fix the damaged cable within the next five to seven weeks, and those cables would add up to the company’s redundant capacity in case of any future disruptions.
He said the decision by the government to license Elon Musk’s Starling satellite network to operate in Ghana was good news.
Answering a question posed by a shareholder on MTN’s preparation to handle the competition that development would bring to the market, Adadevoh said MTN rather sees any entrance of Starlink as an opportunity for partnership.
What the company would do is leverage Starlink’s satellite resources to complement our existing fibre and microwave resources. “Ultimately Starlink provides an alternative source of capacity that is complimentary to the ecosystem to ensure continuity of service delivery”.
