| Free Spectrum Granted to Some Service Providers Since April for COVID-19, General Elections and Festive Season - 26/11/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Ghana |
| The National Communications Authority (NCA) has granted additional temporary spectrum at no cost to MTN and Vodafone to improve their service to customers. The extra 5 Megahertz (MHz) spectrum was made available to the network operators in April 2020 at their request, to ease congestion following a surge in the usage of communication services as a result of COVID-19. In anticipation of a furthe (...) |
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| Ghana launches COVID-19 Tracker App - 15/04/2020 |
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| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Ghana |
| Ghana’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications launched a new app designed to help in tracing people who have come into contact with COVID-19 positive individuals. The COVID-19 Tracker App is able to trace contacts of persons infected by the virus and show where they have been in recent times through various telephone-related data, and link such p (...) |
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| The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) highlights interventions rolled out by its members to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 - 14/04/2020 |
| Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Ghana |
| GOVERNMENT: • Free access to critical websites and Government portals that provide COVID-19 awareness and safety protocols to enable citizens access information for free. • On-going Collaboration with National Information Technology Authority (NITA) to zero-rate Government of Ghana Smart Workplace Portal to enable government workers work from home. • Provision of network related data through our r (...) |
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| The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) highlights interventions rolled out for Consumers by its members to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 - 13/04/2020 |
| Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Africa | Ghana |
| CONSUMER: • Free access to over 100 educational online sites, e-learning platforms and libraries (public, private, foreign). • Free calls to the National COVID-19 response number (112) as well as other emergency service numbers; • In consultation with the Ghana Health Service, our members are leveraging their infrastructure to broadcast emergency communications to educate over 30 million customer (...) |
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