Vodafone Ghana has offered all customers free international calls and SMS to Turkey and Syria. The telecommunications company will also refund customers all charges on calls that were made to Turkey and Syria from 1st February.
Continue readingTelecel Group Completes Agreement to Acquire Majority Shares in Vodafone Ghana
February 21, 2023, Accra – Vodafone Group Plc has completed the transfer of its 70% majority shares
in Vodafone Ghana (Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited – GTCL), to the Telecel Group after
successfully obtaining all the necessary regulatory approvals, including the agreement of the
Government of Ghana, as a minority shareholder.
Vodafone Ghana Introduces Shortcode to Help Customers Manage Content Subscriptions
Vodafone Ghana has launched a subscription management portal to help its customers easily view and manage their subscriptions to value-added services (VAS). Customer can access this portal by dialing *463# or visiting the Value-Added Service section of the My Vodafone App. This latest development is part of Vodafone Ghana’s ongoing efforts to enhance customer experience.
Continue readingMTN commits to $1 bln Ghana investment after government scraps tax claim
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 15 (Reuters) – MTN Group (MTNJ.J) will invest $1 billion in Ghana over the next five years, the mobile operator said on Wednesday, after the government exempted its Ghanaian unit from tax claims worth about $773 million.
Continue readingMTN Group Affirms Faith in Future of Ghana’s Economy
MTN Group today reaffirmed its commitment to Ghana, a market it has been investing in for over 25 years. Since the beginning of operations in the market, the business has been integral to the economy of Ghana, focusing on enabling connectivity, inclusivity and socio-economic transformation through digital technologies.
Continue readingSelorm Adadevoh wins ‘MTN CEO of Year Award’ at MTN Leadership Gathering in SA
The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, won big at this year’s MTN Leadership Gathering conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, winning the MTN CEO of the Year.
Continue readingMTN Ghana marks ‘Safer Internet Day’ celebration with students of Osu Presbyterian SHS
Telecommunication giant, MTN Ghana, has joined the world to mark the 20th edition of the ‘Safer Internet Day’ celebration with students of the Osu Presbyterian Senior High School in Accra.
Continue readingUse only our recruitment portal; disregard fraudulent agents – Vodafone Ghana
Vodafone Ghana says the public should disregard reports that it is recruiting new persons for various positions in the company.
Continue readingAirtelTigo to undergo rebranding under new management
Impeccable sources have revealed that last week the Minister of Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful personally informed workers of the company that “the deal is done” and latest by February they will know the name of the new buyer.
Meanwhile, the various agencies and partners of AirtelTigo have also been informed about the coming of the new buyer and the forthcoming rebranding of the company.
It is not clear if the brand colors will be changed or maintained, but the source says the name AirtelTigo will be completely done away with.
Meanwhile, workers are very much upbeat about the coming of the new buyer because, as the source put it, “workers have been sitting on the tenterhooks since government acquired AirtelTigo, not knowing what their fate was. But now it is clear that things will be a bit better.”
Government took over AirtelTigo in 2021 for only US$1, when the two telcos which merged to form the company, India’s Bharti Airtel (Airtel) and Sweden Millicom Cellular BV (Tigo) left the country.
Since the merger, the company has still not been doing so well on the market, as it is reportedly heavily indebted to tower companies, particularly ATC Ghana.
Last year, Globacom Ghana, another telco which had also not been doing so well on the market, migrated all of its over 800,000 customers to the AirtelTigo platform. So, now Glo customers have become AirtelTigo customers and the Glo network is now dormant, even though the company still holds its license, at least until July this year.
This also comes at a time when the National Communications Authority (NCA) only recently approved the sale of majority shares in Vodafone Ghana to Telecel Group, after a roller coaster process, in which the NCA initially claimed the deal did not meet regulatory requirements and Telecel did not have the technical and financial muscles to do the job.
Meanwhile, the runaway market leader, MTN Ghana, has been made a significant market power (SMP) with some seven measures being implemented in that regard to correct the imbalance in the market, which has been a concern to both existing and prospective investors in the space.
Industry experts hold that making MTN an SMP was one of the calculated moves to drive investor confidence in the market because several interested investors have for years been concerned about the size and continuous growth of MTN in Ghana as other telcos and ISPs (internet service providers) continued to perform abysmally.
It would have appeared that the SMP strategy has not done much to curtail MTN, so now the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has slapped a GHS8.2 billion tax liability on MTN based on an alleged audit done by Safari Tech Ghana Limited, which claimed that MTN hid 30% revenue from government between 2014 and 2018.
MTN has disputed the claim, but it would appear that the efforts at “cutting MTN to size”, as alleged by some industry watchers, has triggered investor confidence to the point that Telecel is set to come into the market and there is a new buyer for AirtelTigo, which would be made public possibly in February.
Source: Techgh24(News Ghana)
Modernisation, harmonisation of regulatory frameworks critical for universal broadband coverage by 2030 – Ralph Mupita
Ralph Mupita, The President and CEO of MTN Group, Africa’s telecommunications giant, has called for modernisation and harmonisation of regulatory frameworks to ensure Africa can deliver universal broadband coverage by 2030. He made these remarks at the maiden edition of the Africa Prosperity Dialogue held at Peduase in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
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