![\"6d6c9f9b-24f2-43e2-8eb2-9dddffd85510\"](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/6d6c9f9b-24f2-43e2-8eb2-9dddffd85510.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nVodafone, with a 23 per cent market share, employs 1,500 permanent workers and another 300 people engaged on contract basis.<\/p>\n
Mr. Amankwah announced that there had been a significant increase in the number of its subscribers – from 1.5 million in year 2008 to 7.3 million, and
\nunderlined its determination to roll out innovative products expand its market share.<\/p>\n
He complained overcrowding in the telecommunications industry with six operators competing for space and attention in nation of about 27 million people.<\/p>\n
That, he said, had created problems of overregulation and over-taxation, which was crippling the activities of the companies.<\/p>\n
He therefore called on the regulator, the National Communication Authority (NCA) to create the right conditions for them to thrive.<\/p>\n
The high and multiple taxes combined with inflexible policies was making things really hard for them, he added.<\/p>\n
Mr. Amankwah stated that the imbalance in the market share was also not helpful to healthy competition and asked that this was tackled to create a level playing field.<\/p>\n
Nana Yaa Afriyie Ofori-Koree, Foundation and Sustainability Manager, said Vodafone as a responsible corporate citizen, would continue to live up to its social responsibility.<\/p>\n
It had so far paid the medical bills of 70 patients, who had to undergo surgery for treatment of their health conditions and offered scholarship to a total 100 girls pursuing courses
\nin technology.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
Credit: Vodafone Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vodafone Ghana, one of the nation’s leading telecommunication companies has within the past seven years invested US$1.7 billion to strengthen its operations. Mr. Ebenezer Amankwah, the Corporate Communications Manager, said this basically involved upgrading of network infrastructure. He was speaking at a round table discussion with the media in Kumasi to highlight the progress and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":175477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-175475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}