Industry News

Industry group GSMA elected four new board members, with representatives from KDDI, KT, Telecom Italia and Veon to serve two-year terms from January 2021 to end-December 2022

Communications infrastructure operator American Tower inked a $3.5 billion deal to acquire InSite Wireless Group, bolstering its US presence and expanding into Canada as 5G deployments in both countries take off.

As part of a grand scheme by the government to extend basic telephone voice and data connectivity to every part of the country, the first rural telephony project to help achieve that has been launched at Atwereboana, New Edubiase in the Ashanti Region.

Huawei has launched the sixth edition of Seeds for the Future in Ghana Accra. In partnership with the ministry of communication, the ministry of education, UNESCO, National Council of Tertiary Education and three Universities, Ghana Sky Seeds for the Future will give 50 STEM university students the opportunity to expand their scope in ICT. It is also advocating more female participation in ICT.

CEO of Vodafone Ghana Patricia Obo-Nai has urged engineering students of Ashesi University to also seek practical experiences whilst in school.

The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr Kenneth Ashigbey, has said the country’s training of the ecosystem must evolve with a mix of innovation in all educational facets.

MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) Limited, a subsidiary of MTN Ghana, on Tuesday launched an insurance scheme in partnership with Enterprise Life Insurance and GGMB Brokers for Mobile Money (MoMo) vendors.

Telecommunications giant, Vodafone Ghana, sponsored the Otumfuo at 70 Invitational Golf Tournament that was held on Saturday at the Royal Golf Club in Kumasi, Ashanti Region.

Leading Telecommunications giant, Huawei Technologies, has launched the 6th edition of their global flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, ‘Ghana Sky Seeds for the Future programme’ today, October 22nd, 2020 in Accra.

The MTN-Ghana Foundation, a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of the Telecom giant, on Friday commissioned a 3-unit classroom block and an administrative office for the people of Adzintem, near Potsin in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region.