Posts Tagged with "tigo"

My expectations of Glo Mobile Ghana

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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Glo Mobile is very likely to be launched in Ghana before the end of this year 2009. Having shifted their launch date severally, a launch in December 2009 seems imminent. Glo Mobile’s entry into Ghana comes at a time when Ghana’s mobile communications industry appears to be saturated already. For a population of about 22 million [...]

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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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My Location on Google Maps

Sunday, October 26, 2008

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I discovered a Google Maps beta feature that had been on my PDA for several months now, just last night. I had only been using my I-Mate JAQ3 as a digital assistant, without using the phone functionality – no thanks to Tigo’s network access expiry. Tigo Ghana has a way of disabling one’s access to [...]

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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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Tigo goes to Ghana

Thursday, March 2, 2006

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Speculation time is over. It’s now official; Mobitel/Buzz GSM is now tiGO. Millicom Ghana Limited, operators of the tiGO network in Ghana, have also confirmed that the company would soon launch a mobile Internet service using GPRS technology, as well as MultiMedia Messaging. See Mobile Africa The concluding part of Millicom’s press release reads: Ghana is the third [...]

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Buzz GSM rebranded tiGO

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

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On 24th February 2006, I speculated: Ghana’s Buzz GSM to go GPRS? Well, the cat is out of the bag. Not only is Mobitel Ghana unleashing mobile Internet, they have rebranded thier cellular service to “tiGO”. I am not very sure if tiGO applies to both post-paid and pre-paid packages from Mobitel Ghana as they had hitherto [...]

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Kasapa Ghana

Friday, December 23, 2005

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Kasapa is causing serious shock waves in Ghana's mobile telecommunication industry and its only a matter of time before the cellco becomes a formidable force.

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