Posts Tagged with "mtn ghana"

A review of MTN Ghana Mobile Broadband service

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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With over 7.4 million subscribers as of September 2009, MTN is easily Ghana’s leading telecommunications network, offering mobile telephony services, Internet connectivity and more. I recently picked up an MTN “Exclusive 3G Pack” for 100 Ghana Cedis (about $69) and have used it extensively for about 14 days mainly in Accra. The information below is based [...]

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MTN Ghana, stop the spamming!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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MTN Ghana is annoying a lot of their subscribers with the persistent text messages from 2010, yours truly included. All a subscriber has to do is text “Go” to the number 2010 and he/she is then burdened with the misfortune of being bombarded with text messages morning, afternoon and evening entreating him/her to keep texting [...]

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Vodafone, Zain, MTN, Tigo, Glo Mobile and their competition in Ghana

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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With the entry of international telecoms giant Vodafone into the Ghanaian telecoms industry, things would never be the same again. Matter-of-fact, the telecoms industry is very exciting at this time because Ghana is the meeting point of some African and international telecoms giants: MTN, Tigo, Vodafone, Zain, and soon-to-launch Glo Mobile. The main thrust of [...]

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Zain Ghana and ‘their’ zainportal.com

Thursday, June 18, 2009

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Apparently in a bid to rival MTN Ghana’s mtnloaded.com.gh, Zain Ghana is launching its own content portal for its subscribers. The competition on the mobile front in Ghana has been between MTN and Zain in recent times. There is a problem however. The web address Zain is advertising doesn’t belong to them and doesn’t contain [...]

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Free Midnight Calls: Are they worth it?

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

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Free midnight calls as offered by cellular network operators have been around for a few years now. Thanks to competition, just about every major cellular network in Ghana and Nigeria offer[ed] free midnight calls in one form or the other. These networks include MTN, Celtel, glo mobile in Nigeria as well Tigo, MTN, Kasapa and [...]

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Celtel Ghana

Sunday, October 28, 2007

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With its 75% acquisition of Ghana’s Second National Operator (SNO) – Western Telesystems Limited [WESTEL] from the government of Ghana for US$120 million, Celtel now has an operation in Ghana. Celtel International is the African arm of Zain. According to Zain’s website: [...] Zain (formerly MTC Group) acquired African mobile telecoms leader Celtel International B.V in May [...]

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MTN in Ghana and Cellular Telephony in Senegal

Thursday, May 11, 2006

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I got the following text in my email yesterday, from someone I know. My reply follows the text. According to “Northern African Wireless Communications” Feb./March 2006, the “combined revenues” for the two mobile operators in Senegal, Sonatel Mobile and Sentel, came to just two million dollars in 2004. From what we know about comparable figures [...]

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