The latest industry report on the performances of telecommunication operators in Nigeria puts Globacom in the lead in new Internet subscriber acquisition.

Call centres have created millions of good jobs in the emerging world. Technology threatens to take those jobs away again

Whether in Nairobi or Albuquerque, a shopping centre is not really a shopping centre unless it has at least two anchor tenants. These can be department stores, cinemas or bookshops, anything that will fill a large space and lure customers past smaller boutiques. The idea is that a cinema-goer might pause to buy a leather jacket; and, in a lovely symbiosis, the monied youngsters who shop for clothes and sunglasses might decide to catch a film.

InstinctWave ltd has announced the maiden Ghana ICT Week Celebration. The weeklong celebration comes off 16th May to 21st May, 2016. 

The Ghana ICT Week Celebration will focus on “Celebrating ICTs & its Role in National Development”. The theme will retrospect on the massive impact ICTs/Internet has had on the lives of Ghanaians over the years. It will also focus on the future prospects and way forward for the industry. Various activities have been scheduled, all of which revolve around ICTs and how they touch every Ghanaians’ lives.

A statement issued in Accra, quotes Akin Naphtal, Group Publisher of MobileWorld as saying, the time is right for the ICT industry to be celebrated for its massive contribution to Ghana’s economy. According to him, Ghana is gradually becoming a wired and technologically developed country with organizations and government agencies adopting ICT based solutions.

“We are proud to host the Ghana ICT Week 2016, the weeklong event w

While digital technologies have spread fast worldwide, their digital dividends have not.

A new World Bank report says that while the internet, mobile phones and other digital technologies are spreading rapidly throughout the developing world, the anticipated digital dividends of higher growth, more jobs, and better public services have fallen short of expectations, and 60 percent of the world's population remains excluded from the ever-expanding digital economy.

According to the new 'World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends,' authored by Co-Directors, Deepak Mishra and Uwe Deichmann and team, the benefits of rapid digital expansion have been skewed towards the wealthy, skilled, and influential around the world, who are better positioned to take advantage of the new technologies.

In addition, though the number of internet users worldwide has more than tripled since 2005, four billion people still lack access to the internet.

Huawei Technologies Ghana has presented prizes to winners of its “Huawei Instant Win Promotion” in keeping with its promise.

The promotion by the premium smartphones and devices manufacturer guarantees instant prizes to consumers who purchase selected Huawei devices.

Recently, the technology industry in Ghana has been witnessing a battle for the two blocks of spectrum 800MHz, which became available as a result of the migration of television from analogue to digital channels as required of every member-country of International Telecommunications Union (ITU), by way of international convention.

The Ghana ICT chamber has called on the National Communication Authority (NCA) as a matter of urgency to reverse its decision to award the 4G internet spectrum to foreign based companies.

According to the chamber, the attitude of the NCA can best be described as a move to kill the initiative of local ICT companies.

It argued that the decision of the NCA to award the spectrum to MTN, a foreign based company was tantamount to being hostile to indigenous Ghanaian companies.

The adoption of data analytics solutions by Ghanaian companies in addition to better collaboration between the technology industry and the Ghanaian government have been identified as vital to the county’s economic and Information Technology (IT) development agenda.

Communications Minister, Dr Edward Omane Boamah has challenged the newly formed Ghana ICT Chamber to honestly explain to Ghanaians the involvement of their members, namely Surfline, Gold Key Telecoms, and Blu Telecoms in all the processes that led to the invitation for bids toward the new 800mhz frequency.

The Chamber on Monday raised concerns over what it said was the National Communications Authority (NCA's) intention to sell the next generation spectrum to foreign-owned telecom companies, saying the move amounted to “NCA's broken promises to ring fence the deployment of next generation Long-Term Evolution (LTE) capacity to Ghanaian-owned companies only”.

But speaking in an interview with Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's Kokrokoo morning show, the minister said government has well-intended plans.

Bank customers could benefit from heavily reduced transaction costs if integration of mobile financial services such as MTN Mobile Money achieve greater efficiency.

That is the verdict of the Chief Information Officer of Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited, Tunji Alabi, who said more people and businesses need to sign up onto the mobile financial services to reap the enormous benefits.

Tunji was a major testament of the benefits Fidelity Bank had realized from partnering with MTN Business at the 4th MTN Business Fair this year, held Wednesday at the La Palm Royal Beach in Accra.

MTN Ghana will on Wednesday August 5th, launch its Mobile Money Month across its business districts.

Ghana’s leading telecommunications company, MTN Ghana has announced the appointment of Ebenezer Twum Asante as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2015.

The National Insurance Commission (NIC) has commended mobile network operator, Tigo for its contribution to improving insurance penetration in the country.

The Director General of National Information Technology Agency (NITA), Mr William Tevie, has received the Industry Personality Award at the fifth Ghana Telecom Awards 2015.

(CNN)—For a second year in a row, Kenya's busy capital city of Nairobi has been named the most intelligent city in Africa -- failing, however, to make it to the world's top seven finalists.

Airtel Ghana has announced the introduction of the ultra slim ALCATEL ONETOUCH MIFI Y600 on the Ghanaian market.

Airtel Ghana has announced the appointment of Hannah Agbozo as Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs.

The first ever MTN Business annual fair in Accra ended successfully at the Alisa Hotel with key participating firms rating the telecommunications operator the best in the country for networking and allied services.

Telecommunications market leader, MTN, will Wednesday outdoor an annual MTN Business Fair in the capital, Accra as it seeks to propagate its growing strengths as a solid business solutions provider.

Tigo Ghana has launched its third entrepreneurship programme aimed at identifying and empowering young Ghanaians with innovative digital solutions to step forward and help solve some of Ghana’s most pressing needs.

GLO Mobile has introduced a new product with an exciting tariff plan which will enable telecommunication subscribers in Ghana to make free calls to their friends, family and business associates in Nigeria.

Vodafone and tiGO dropped some of their subscribers for the month of August according to statistics released by the industry regulator, National Communications Authority (NCA).

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) has called for the removal of the 20 per cent excise duty imposed on mobile phones to help stem the unintended consequences it has caused.

Telkom Kenya has announced the appointment of Vincent Lobry as the company’s new chief executive officer effective Thursday.