October 2019

MTN Ghana has been adjudged the 2018 Telecom Company of the Year, Brand Activation of the Year and the Internet Service Provider Company of the Year. These awards were received at the awards ceremony organized by the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) in Accra.

The Chief Marketing Officer of MTN Ghana, Mr. Noel Kojo-Ganson was also adjudged ‘The Marketing Practitioner of the Year’.

The awards were in recognition of MTN’s excellence in strategic marketing in the areas of Market insights, People Management, Corporate Reputation Management and Corporate Social Responsibility. The company was also commended for being a strong player within Corporate Ghana.

In a citation,

MTN was eulogized for exceeding its vision of delivering a bold new digital world for its customers and has maintained top of mind brand awareness through visibility on multiple traditional and digital channels of communication. MTN was also recognized for introducing innovations like payment of mobile apps using MoMo, buying and trading shares on MoMo platform, airtime purchase reversals on MTN MoMo and seamless connectivity and unified billing across fibre broadband, wireless and Mobile Networks.

Commenting on the awards, the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana,Selorm Adadevoh said, “As the leading telecom company, MTN continues to find innovative ways to lead in delivering a bold new digital world to its customers. Digital is the way to go and MTN has introduced various digital devices into the market to support this initiative in ensuring that our customers keep up with the changing digital trends.”

“We continue to grow the brand and in the area of MoMo, we will continue to bring convenience to customers through the use of the mobile phone while contributing to a cash lite society” he added.

The CEO, Selorm Adadevoh congratulated Noel Kojo-Ganson for being adjudged Marketing Practitioner of the Year.

The CIMG National Marketing Performance Awards is a high-profile event that acknowledges individuals and organizations for marketing excellence and innovation. The awards seek among other things to promote high professional standards and to encourage excellence among marketing practitioners. This year’s event was under the theme “Celebrating 30 Years of Promoting Marketing Excellence – Synergies for the Future.”

MTN Ghana has received several awards from CIMG for its innovative products and services in previous awards events.

Source: GNA

U.S. based OpenRAN company Parallel Wireless on Monday announced working with Vodafone to deploy a macro OpenRAN pilot in Asia (Turkey) and in Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Both production trials are a part of a telecom infra project OpenRAN initiative to reduce deployment and maintenance costs for RAN platforms, according to a joint statement.

The association stems from the need to reduce operating expenditure(opex) amid growing demand for mobile broadband services and rising capital expenditure(capex) and operating expenditure (opex) in relation to network deployment, both the companies added.

Amrit Heer, head of Business Development, EME, Parallel Wireless said, “Hardware-based networks are costly and difficult to maintain and upgrade. By shifting networks to virtualized OpenRAN, telecom operators can cloudify their networks to deliver coverage to every single subscriber at much lower cost.”

Lux Maharaj, Director, Africa Sales, Parallel Wireless, said, “ Parallel Wireless enables cloud native architectures, providing greater flexibility for operators.”

Source: telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com

The Human Resource team of AirtelTigo has been adjudged the ‘HR Team of the Year’ at the 2019 Human Resource Focus Awards held in Accra.

AirtelTigo team won the award for employing innovative and unique approaches to addressing key business issues. Excerpts from the citation conferred on the AirtelTigo HR Team reads: “Your influence on HR cannot be underestimated. As a team, your collaborative approach to HR practice and your ability to attract and develop talents is par excellence.

“Your timely and excellent execution and completion of a merger between two independent telecommunications giants, which was the first of its kind in Africa, is commendable. As a team, your ability to seamlessly develop a comprehensive compensation and benefits strategy for the newly merged entity to remain competitive is worth emulating.

“You have shown excellence in your collective functions and in business partnering with other functions across your organisation to achieve cross-functional synergies and bottom-line performance.”

Receiving the award, the Chief HR Officer at AirtelTigo, Eric Sewonu Adadevoh, said: “We are elated to receive this award which reinforces our track record of creating new opportunities for people and their passion, valuing their commitment to work and generating trust through our company values.”

“We thank the panel of expert judges for recognizing our efforts during the integration period and collaborative approach taken to HR activities and how it linked to our company’s objectives. I also thank our Leadership team, colleagues, and partners for their excellent collaborative support,” he added.

Showcasing excellence in the Ghanaian HR sector, the 2019 awards, organized by the HR Focus Magazine, was designed to bring together top-level executives and business professionals with the aim of shared learning and discussions around a central theme, agile working and redefining productivity.
The awards scheme recognizes and honours organisations that have built up a tradition of best practice in HR management. The event was attended by over 200 professionals and business executives.

SOURCE: airteltigo.com.gh

MTN and Ericsson have launched Mobile Money Open Access Programming Interface (API) platform in Ghana to give entrepreneurs an opportunity to develop revenue-generating applications.

The Open API platform will enable developers and programmers to get free access to MTN Mobile Money propriety software platform.

A statement issued in Accra by Mr. Samuel Koranteng, the Corporate Services Executive, MTN, said developers could also access it, create products that ease payment options and leverage the MTN clients registered on Mobile Money.

It said, “As part of the new agreement, MTN will grant access to third parties to its Mobile Access Programming Interface (API) powered by Ericsson Wallet platform.”

It said Ericsson’s Wallet Platform brings easy-to-use, next-generation mobile financial services to MTN customers.

The statement quoted Mr Fadi Pharaon, President of Ericsson Middle East and Africa, saying, “The ease to spend, spend and receive money using a mobile phone is becoming an essential part of people’s lives.”

“Our new partnership with MTN in Ghana aims to develop a more open, easy and accessible mobile money network. Ericsson is driving this change of making mobile money more open by collaborating with MTN to advance secure, flexible platforms that help build an interconnected and transparent financial ecosystem,” it added.

Ericsson is providing MTN a flexible, reliable and efficient m-commerce solution that includes Ericsson Wallet platform, systems integration, operational support and solution development.

The platform will allow users to store, transfer and withdraw money, pay merchants and utility providers as well as use financial services like savings and loans.

Source: GNA

Vodafone Ghana has launched October as a “Care Month” with a host of activities to engage its customer base and lead by example in highlighting the importance of the customer to its business.

According to a statement from Vodafone to the Ghana News Agency, with a brand promise of providing an exciting future for its customers, Vodafone was on course to becoming the digital telcommunication of choice in Ghana.

Mrs Patricia Obo-Nai, the Chief Executive of Vodafone Ghana, according to the statement, led by example on Monday when she interacted with customers from various walks of life at the company’s Cantonments Retail shop.

Her presence meant a great deal to the customers, who engaged her for close to two hours and she distributed gifts in the form of e-top ups to them, the statement said.

Mrs Obo-Nai said: “It was exciting to engage the people who guarantee the sustainability of our business. Our customers are the reason we exist and we should never take them for granted. We have a well packaged line up of activities to make this month special for our customers.”

The statement disclosed that Vodafone’s customers across the country stood the chance of receiving airtime, Vodafone cash rewards, hampers and other exciting prizes beginning October 7, 2019, as part of the programme.

Source: GNA