The National Communications Authority (NCA) has banned telecom operator Expresso from engaging in any sales or marketing promotions until next month.<\/p>\n
The ban follows Expresso\u2019s performance in the latest quality of service monitoring of cellular mobile voice services report conducted by the NCA.<\/p>\n
The quality of service monitoring of cellular mobile voice services analyzes the performance of mobile operators in the country, to assess the user experience using the mobile voice service.<\/p>\n
This is conducted in order to direct improvement in Quality of Service of mobile operators.<\/p>\n
The monitoring also enhances NCA\u2019s understanding of current problems faced by consumers to enable it work more closely with operators to improve customer experiences<\/p>\n
According to the report Expresso had operational challenges in all the three Northern regions as well as the Eastern and Volta regions.<\/p>\n
The NCA has directed Expresso to resolve the matter by close of this month.<\/p>\n
With about 154,000 subscribers, Expresso owns just about 0.5 percent of the mobile voice telephony market.<\/p>\n
In NCA\u2019s recent market share report for February this year it revealed that Expresso continued with its decline in market share losing about 15,000 subscribers representing 9percent of its subscriber base.<\/p>\n
The February 2014 report is based on findings on the quality of service in the three Northern, Eastern and Volta regions.<\/p>\n
Expresso network was not available in all three Northern regions at the time of testing due to total outage of its systems serving the three regions.<\/p>\n
The report measured 4 key items including Stand-alone Dedicated Control Channel (SDCCH) Congestion Rate, Call Setup Time (CST), Call Congestion Rate and Call Drop Rate (CDR).<\/p>\n
The report revealed all operators had call setup delays in certain locations, <\/b>which is the period of time elapsing from the sending of a target telephone number to the setting up of a call to the receiving terminal.<\/p>\n
The NCA has also notified telecom operators of the findings in the report and suspended sanctions to defaulters pending their performance in the next monitoring findings in the same regions.<\/p>\n
The report also accused MTN of not being in compliance with the Call Drop license threshold of less than three percent in all localities tested.<\/p>\n
By:\u00a0 Rabiua Alhassan\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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