Tag Archives: Ghana

Mobile Money Comes to Ghana

November 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Four months after MTN’s Mobile Money launched in Ghana, it has 20,000 users and 1,200 merchants. Uptake has been slow, but as Bruno Akpaka ...
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Ghana Pledges No New Mobile Operators and Better Mobile Service

August 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The Ghanaian government recently pledged to license no new mobile operators. With six operators in Ghana, the market is already crowded. The government says the ...
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39 Out of 40 Ghanian Phones Are Mobile

August 10, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
As is the case in most of Africa, mobile phone use in Ghana far outstrips that of fixed landlines. Ghana Business News reports that only ...
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The Last Infotech Frontier

November 15, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Last month Daniel Berninge posted some comments on GigaOM about his recent trip through Ghana… A recent two-week visit to Ghana, Africa, offered up scenes that ...
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Tracking the Continent’s Politics with Africanelections.org

October 27, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
One of the (many) incredibly scary things about the recent crises in Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa was the lack of information available to people ...
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E-Trash Piles up in Ghana

August 11, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Somewhere along the line a few people have gotten the idea that anything that they aren’t using anymore should be boxed up and mailed off ...
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Ghana Telecom Acquired By Vodafone

July 2, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
ItNewsAfrica is reporting that the somewhat secret talks between Vodafone and Ghana Telecom have reached a conclusion: Vodafone is expected to be confirmed the new owner ...
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Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund: Investing in African Ideas

July 2, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) is a US$50-100m private sector fund, backed by some of the biggest names in development finance and hosted by ...
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