Alphabet’s Loon plotted its first trial in Kenya in collaboration with Telkom Kenya, ahead of a potential commercial launch later this year.
Continue readingVODAFONE UK SWITCHES ON 5G NETWORK
Vodafone UK has switched on its 5G network in seven cities, with 5G roaming in four European countries to be available over the summer. This brings the total number of cities where Vodafone Group has launched 5G services across Europe to 27.
Continue readingMTN, NYA SUPPORT 40 YOUTH WITH LIVELIHOOD SKILLS TRAINING
The National Youth Authority (NYA) in collaboration with MTN Ghana has trained 40 young persons to improve their skills for sustainable economic empowerment and independence.
Continue readingMTN LEADS GHANA’S CASHLESS ECONOMY DRIVE
MTN Senior Commercial Manager of General Trade for Northern Ghana, Mr. Samuel Amoh, has said that the telecommunication network is proud to lead the country’s efforts to drive a cashless economy and boost greater economic activities.
Continue readingTelcos record more than 2,000 fibre cuts in first half of 2019
The Mobile Industry experienced over 2,000 incidents of fibre cuts, and 600 incidents of theft at base stations affecting over 18 million subscribers within the first half of this year alone, data released from the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has shown.
Continue readingMTN HOSTS YOUNG CEO’S SUMMIT
MTN Ghana has organized a young CEO’s summit as part of the commemoration of the 21 Days of Y’ello Care initiative, an annual employee volunteer initiative launched by MTN Group in 2007.
The summit was dubbed: “The Bright Young CEOs Digital Summit and Coaching Initiative.”
A statement by Mr Samuel Koranteng, Corporate Services Executive of MTN Ghana and copied the Ghana News Agency said the summit was put together in line with the theme for this year’s 21 Days of Y’ello Care, “Creating a Brighter Future for our Youth.”
The session, which was led by Mr Dario Bianchi, MTN’s Digital Consultant, gave the participants an insight into Digital Sales and Marketing skills and how they could leverage technology to drive their business.
Mr Bianchi emphasized in his presentation the need for young entrepreneurs to incorporate digital marketing into their strategy in order to reach out to larger audiences.
He also urged the participants to make time to assess customers’ opinions about their products online as often as possible.
“Do not be afraid of getting feedback from customers online, it is the most important thing to do,” he said.
In addition, the Senior Management had a “One on One” mentoring session with the 50 young entrepreneurs who took part in the summit.
Some of the young entrepreneurs who participated in the summit included young CEOs in the digital space, agro-business, beauty and cosmetics, fashion, tourism and education.
The statement said throughout the year, MTN Ghana employee volunteers across the country had since June 1, implemented projects aimed at youth empowerment and development.
Some of the projects included training of unemployed youth in skills such as bead making, leather works and computer programming.
MTN staff volunteers are also training the beneficiaries in Digital Marketing, Financial Management, Project Management and Customer Service management.
They would also visit the Borstal home in Accra and some selected prisons to interact and motivate young inmates.
Since the inception of the 21 days of Y’ello Care challenge in 2007, MTN Ghana has won the 2008 WECA Regional Awards and the overall Y’ello Care Challenge for 2010 and 2011.
MTN Ghana also won the Y’ello Care ICT Project for 2013 and Y’ello Care Innovation Project award for 2014.
The “21 Days of Y’ello Care” is a competition amongst MTN operations to secure the highest number of staff involved in volunteerism and initiating projects with remarkable impact.
The country with the highest staff participation wins the prize money of $100,000 to be reinvested in community projects.
It is to encourage MTN staff to commit their time and resources to community service for 21 days in June.
MTN Ghana is the market leader in the increasingly competitive mobile telecommunications industry in Ghana, offering subscribers a range of exciting options under Pay Monthly and Pay As You Go Services and Mobile Financial Services.
The company has committed itself to delivering reliable and innovative services that provide value for subscribers in Ghana’s telecommunications market.
Since its entry into Ghana in 2006, MTN has continuously invested in expanding and modernizing its network in order to offer superior services to a broad expanse of the nation.
Source: GNA
Vodafone shows new level with ‘bossu’ product
Mobile telecommunication network, Vodafone Ghana, has introduced Vodafone Bossu, a new offer which is already empowering its customers to remain connected to their friends and families without worrying about the cost.
Continue readingVODAFONE SHOWS NEW LEVEL WITH ‘BOSSU’ PRODUCT
Mobile telecommunication network, Vodafone Ghana, has introduced Vodafone Bossu, a new offer which is already empowering its customers to remain connected to their friends and families without worrying about the cost.
The product relies on the concept that customers deserve more out of their day and weekends.
The offer, which has exciting daily and weekend bundles, gives customers matchless data and voice minutes at unbelievable prices. For just Ghc2, customers get to enjoy 100 minutes for calls across networks and 100MB data by subscribing to ‘Bossu Daily’. ‘Bossu Data’ offers 3.5GB at 10Ghc and 10GB at 40Ghc for heavy data users. “Bossu Weekend” offers customers, 5GB of data and 300 minutes for calls across networks at just Ghc5.
Commenting on the new product, Pushpinder Gujral, Director for Consumer Business at Vodafone Ghana said:
“Convenience and the right packages matter if our customers are to enjoy their lives on a consistent basis. We undertook to study our customers’ behaviour and trends and decided that the “Vodafone Bossu” offer was timely and a stroke of inspiration. We are giving our customers more data and call minutes to connect to the things that matter to them the most. Now go on and be the Bossu that you truly are.’’
The offer, which was launched over a week ago, is already causing a stir within the telecommunications industry. To enjoy the product, customers are required to simply dial *5588# to sign on to the package.
Source: Ghanaweb
VODAFONE CASH TARGETS FIVE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS
Vodafone Ghana has assured Ghanaians of adequate security and excellent mobile money services as it ups campaign to move the more than five million subscribers onto the Vodafone cash wallet.
Continue readingMTN TO BUILD FORENSIC LABORATORY FOR GHANA POLICE SERVICE
The Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) would be establishing a standard forensic laboratory for the Ghana Police Service to enhance investigations, evidence collection and authentication as the country dream of controlling crime and other related social vices.
The Company would also train 100 physically challenged in the MoMo Business and set them up to economically empower them.
Mr. Eli Hini, the General Manager for Mobile Money Transactions of the MTN said building the laboratory “Is our way of saying thank you to the Service for their massive support in curbing crimes and fraudulence that has become a major challenge in the Momo sector”.
Though fraudsters continued to scheme to outwit, dupe and make the Momo industry unattractive to some members of society, arrest of these miscreant, continuous education on safe keeping of pin numbers by subscribers and the support of the Ghana Police have largely contributed to its successes over the last ten years.
Mr. Hini at the launch of the 10th anniversary in Takoradi, under the theme: “MoMo @10, Making life Simple” said it was to celebrate a decade of innovation and most transformational technological innovations that had been introduced in country.
“Mobile Money, MoMo, as we all call now, has come to make life simple and comfortable for most people. It is not an exaggeration when I say that MoMo has impacted the lives of millions of Ghanaians across the country”, he added.
He expressed gratitude to key stakeholders, customers and regulators especially, the Bank of Ghana for working with the company to grow the Mobile Money service into a buoyant financial sector.
Mr Hini noted that MoMo service begun with MTN’s desire to get the Mobile phone to go beyond the ordinary, “we officially launched the service on July 21st 2009 with the Governor. The beginning was very slow and extremely difficult because what we had introduced was not just a breakthrough in technology – it was also going to break the sociology of how money is used and exchanged.”
He mentioned that decade down the line; MoMo had become the foremost payment system in the country with 14 million subscribers and 18 partner banks.
Currently, MoMo run transactions from international partners and have forged partnerships with Visa, Google, Western Union, and Mastercard.
Beyond financial inclusion, the introduction of Mobile Money into the Ghanaian payment system had created employment for thousands of people.
The Manager said as of the end of May this year, the number of active Mobile Money agents in the Western Region stood at 24,500.
MTN MoMo set a world record – during the launch of MTN’s Initial Public Offer, which allowed people to buy shares using MoMo.
“While we celebrate the achievements made over the past decade, we do not lose sight of the challenges that face us in the Mobile Money sector…there are still concerns about fraud activities. We continue to call on everyone to constantly educate friends and families to be extra vigilant in protecting their Mobile Money wallets.” he added.
DSP Olivia Adiku, Regional Police PRO advised the market women to endeavour to memorize their pin code and never to make it public to any third party as it had become the only means for fraudsters to thrive.
Source: GNA