Ghana to reach 95% of mobile connectivity by 2020 | Technology

Ghana is expected to have 95 percent of mobile phone connectivity by 2020, Vincent Sowah Odotei, deputy minister of communications, said on Wednesday.

He explained to the Parliament that the Ministry of Communications, through the Ghana Investment Fund for Communications (GIFEC), was procuring "appropriate and profitable" technologies as part of its rural telephony, to provide the necessary connectivity for all unserved and underserved networks. communities in Ghana.

The Deputy Minister's badurance comes from a question from Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu, on behalf of Mr. Geoffrey Kini, Member of Parliament for Nkwanta South, who wished to know when certain communities in the Municipality of Nkwanta South would receive mobile network connectivity.

The communities include Salifu, Bontibor, Kue, Pusupu, Abubruwa and B-Zongo.

Mr. Odotei told the House that a conduct test conducted in the southern municipality of Nkwanta to badess the mobile network connectivity of all communities in the municipality had revealed that some communities, such as Portipor, Nyambong and Alege Akura, had network connectivity.

However, people without connectivity would be served during the procurement that the department was doing jointly with GIFEC.