Tag: Telcos
Telecoms Chamber proposes 0.5% e-levy on mobile money cash out transactions
While Ghanaians are calling for electronic transfer levy (e-levy) to be completely scrapped, the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT), is rather proposing a reduction...
Telco industry pays GHS6 billion to government in 2022
Telecoms industry players who are members of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications (GCT) paid a total of GHS6.07 billion in taxes, fees, levies and...
Top 10 telcos in Africa
In recent years, the African mobile telecommunications sector has witnessed significant expansion, serving as a vital communication link for millions across the continent. As...
SIM Deactivation: 9 million SIM cards, 7 million MoMo wallets to...
CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr. Kenneth Edem Ashigbey says some nine million SIM cards, seven million of which have mobile money...
Telcos, banks in Nigeria row over $262 million SMS fees
Mobile operators in Nigeria including MTN Group and Airtel Africa will stop providing dedicated text message services to banks until the lenders pay ₦120-billion...
Declaration of MTN as SMP: Other telcos save GHS86.6 million –...
The declaration of MTN Ghana as a Significant Market Power (SMP) in the country’s telecommunications sector has resulted in an asymmetric savings of GHC86.6 million for...
Telcos in Nigeria want exclusion from new regulation
Telecom operators in Nigeria have asked the National Assembly to exclude them from any regulatory powers that will be given to the National Information...
Lack of Spectrum Sharing hampering National Roaming
Techfocus24 has learnt that even though the Ministry of Communications and Digitalization (MoCD) pushed MTN into doing National Roaming with Vodafone and AirtelTigo, it...
SIM Registration: NCA biodata not being verified against NIA database
In spite of a claim by the National Communications Authority (NCA) that it needed to capture a second set of bio data for SIM...
Fraudulent SIM Registration: Telcos to issue Short Code to check numbers...
Information reaching Techfocus24 from very reliable sources indicate that telecom operators in the country have been mandated to, by end of April, issue a...