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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.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ebenezer Amankwah, the Corporate Communications Manager, said this basically involved upgrading of network infrastructure.<\/p>\n

He was speaking at a round table discussion with the media in Kumasi to highlight the progress and challenges facing the industry.<\/p>\n

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Vodafone, 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":"

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