The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced the government’s plan to license the satellite internet network Starlink to operate in Ghana. According to her, this was part of the government’s efforts to address the internet disruption in the country. Briefing Parliament on the issue of internet disruptions on March 18, she said […]
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has successfully registered 42.7 million Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards of mobile network operators (MNOs) in the country. They are the SIM cards that have gone through the two-stage registration process of linking them to the Ghana Card and also capturing the biometric data of their owners to match the […]
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation (MoCD) has announced that all unregistered SIM cards will be completely deactivated on November 30, 2022. The Ministry, in a statement issued on November 11, 2022, said: “All SIM cards which have completed the first stage of the registration exercise but not done the second phase will be blocked […]
Some people have registered more than ten (10) SIM cards for personal use in contravention of the SIM card registration directive of 10 SIMs per person, and the database has identified them, the Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has said. All those SIM cards are to be cleaned from the database. The […]
The National Communications Authority has denied an application by the Vodafone Group to transfer 70% majority Shares in Vodafone Ghana to the Telecel Group. The NCA in a press release issued today said the application did not meet the regulatory threshold for the approval to be granted. “In January 2022, the NCA received an application for the […]
The National Identification Authority (NIA) says about 800,000 Ghana cards are yet to be picked up by the owners from NIA’s regional and district offices across the country. According to the NIA the non-collection of printed cards is creating storage challenges for them. “Our immediate challenge has to do with cards that have been printed […]
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has kick-started an initiative to train 5000 girls from five regions in Information Communication and Technology (ICT). The regions are Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Savannah and Northern Region. The first batch of 1000 girls from various districts in the Bono East Region have already started the training in basic […]
The government of Ghana has completed the takeover of the ownership of AirtelTigo, Bharti Airtel has disclosed in a regulatory filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. “This is in further to our announcement dated October 27, 2020, and April 16, 2021, regarding Government of Ghana’s takeover of ownership of Airtel/Tigo Joint Venture. We wish to […]
The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said Ghanaians and foreigners who do not have the Ghana Card cannot re-register their SIM cards beginning October 2021. Speaking at a press conference in the capital Accra on Sunday, she said the exercise is mandatory for all citizens and non-citizens living in Ghana. Owusu-Ekuful announced that […]
Ghana is to start national roaming and interoperability for all mobile telecommunication companies by the end of 2021. This will mean that in areas where a network provider has no coverage, the sim will automatically port unto the available network for the period of time that the subscriber is within the said no coverage area. Subscribers will therefore not need […]
Preparations are rife for migration from Analogue Terrestrial Television (ATT) transmission in the country onto a Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) system. According to the Minister of Communications and Digitisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the government was in the process of identifying people to manage the platform, adding that the migration “will be done soon”. “The only […]
Stakeholders at a consultative meeting on the passage of a broadcasting law to regulate broadcasting activities in the country have unanimously agreed that the time for such a law is more rife than ever. According to them, the lack of a law to regulate the activities of the media was causing a lot of threats […]
