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    Telecom liberalization in Ghana: the gains

    I distinctly remember travelling in the 1980's with my mother all the way to the capital city, a distance of 240 km, before we could make bookings and wait, only God knows how long, for our turn to make IDD phone calls.

    Those were the dark old days of the Ghana Post and Telecommunications monopoly.

    In 1995 Ghanaians had to scrape together more than US$1000 to buy their first connected mobile phones with very limited coverage since the country had few traditional telephone lines. A few years later the GSM system introduced a chip that was going for around $200 – a very rare commodity...

    To read the rest of the article, go to the Accra Daily Mail

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