The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has rolled out 54 Rural Telephony Project (RTP) sites to help extend the coverage of wireless mobile telephone services to the rural...
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has rolled out 54 Rural Telephony Project (RTP) sites to help extend the coverage of wireless mobile telephone services to some rural...
Cooling inflation, positive consumer sentiment and an expected rebound for the economy should underpin a strong performance for Ghana’s retail sector in 2017. In its monetary policy committee (MPC)...
It has been a year since MTN got its 4G license, and they are already in talks with other 4G players in the country for partnership. The telecoms market leader was the only company which won one of...
The National Communications Authority (NCA) the thebftonline.com has gathered has begun the process to end the unsolicited calls and messages through telecom companies operating in the country. This...
National Communications Authority (NCA) has begun a public consultation process to amend and tighten the existing Unsolicited Electronic Communication (UEC) Code of Conduct. If successful, the move...
MTN Ghana, a telecommunication service provider, has won an Engineering Business Management award for its 4G LTE network project, at the 2016 Engineering Excellence Award. The event organised by the...
A few days ago, my father in-law called me. He said he wanted to discuss something very important. As I took my phone to return his call I was wondering what the issue might be. I called him back...
Dependence on Wi-Fi is now so high that 4 out of 10 people would prioritise it over sex, chocolate, or alcohol, a new study has found. The study, carried out by Wi-Fi connectivity provider iPass and...
A 15-month report on short message service (SMS) and mobile data use in the country indicates SMS use declined year-on-year as mobile data consumption more than doubled same period. The report is...
MTN, Ghana’s leading telecommunications services provider, has received an Engineering Business Management award in recognition of its 4G LTE project execution at the Engineering Excellence Awards...
Vodafone Ghana has described as over-priced, the cost of the 4G spectrum by the National Communications Authority. The company did not take part in the bidding process when the NCA put in on offer at...
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has advised mobile phone users to register their SIM cards immediately or risk losing their numbers. According to the Chamber, very soon the grace period given...
I do have a question for you. Is the use of Mobile Phone Banking making significant efforts in bridging the gap to universal financial inclusion? Come to think of it! Mobile banking is simply the act...
For more than 11 years prolific hiplife artiste Okomfour Kwadee real name, Jerry Anaba has not used a mobile phone. His manager Fareed Yakubu who revealed this on a Kumasi-based radio station,...
The elusive world of telecom fraud. What is the way forward? Internet fraud has been known in Ghana for many years but until recently when the airwaves became awash with news of the arrests of people...
A civil society group, Excellent Ghana, is demanding apology from mobile telecommunication operators in the country for the persistent unsolicited text messages they have been sending to subscribers....
When push comes to shove and a simple text becomes a hundred, what do you do? Use these steps on how to get someone to stop texting you. FINALLY. Almost everyone who owns a cell phone has received...
We are all familiar with the stereotype of the young entrepreneur; technology whizz kids with all the latest mobile devices and the ability to multitask as they type hundreds of words a minute....
About 300,000 SIM cards used in Subscriber Identification Modules (SIM) box fraud have been detected and deactivated in the first six months of test operations of Afriwave Telecom.
A statement from...
