J Initiative, a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) partnered with World Vision International, Facebook, Tigo, Vodafone, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Open Learning, Ghana Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Ghana) and Department of Children to undertake a series of activities to celebrate this year’s Safer Internet Day.
In spite of the current economic challenges and rising inflation on other sectors of the economy which Ghana’s mobile telecom operators rely on (light, water, rent, among others) to be productive, they still charged the lowest domestic call rates in Africa.
Ghana’s mobile telecom operators have expressed grave concern over the government’s multiple tax regime saying it is stifling the growth of the telecom industry in the country.
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) has welcomed the government’s directive that contractors should regularly engage telecom companies before embarking on any road work in the country.
By Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona THE latest mobile cellular subscriber base figures for the period ending August 2014, indicate that mobile data subscribers in the country now account for almost 50% of total number of mobile phone lines and over 55% of Ghana’s population.
