Tag: Telcos
Lack of Spectrum Sharing hampering National Roaming
Techfocus24 has learnt that even though the Ministry of Communications and Digitalization (MoCD) pushed MTN into doing National Roaming with Vodafone and AirtelTigo, it...
SIM Registration: NCA biodata not being verified against NIA database
In spite of a claim by the National Communications Authority (NCA) that it needed to capture a second set of bio data for SIM...
Fraudulent SIM Registration: Telcos to issue Short Code to check numbers...
Information reaching Techfocus24 from very reliable sources indicate that telecom operators in the country have been mandated to, by end of April, issue a...
Somalia telcos activate interconnections
A total of six Somalian operators have completed interconnection between their respective services, a move the country’s regulator expects to provide improved competition and...
About 9 million SIM cards to be deactivated tonight
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has announced that telcos in the country will begin deactivating some category of SIM cards in compliance with the...
Ghana’s telecoms industry paid GH¢4.3 billion taxes in 2021
The mobile telecoms industry in Ghana paid taxes, other payments and remittances to the tune of ¢4.3 billion to the government and its allied...
Nigeria: Telcos to disrupt SMS banking services due to $185m USSD...
The row between Nigerian banks and telecommunications operators over the unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) debt seems to have resumed, as telcos disclosed, that...
Mobile Data, SMS traffic up as voice traffic declines
The National Communication Authority's (NCA) Quarterly Statistical Bulletin on Communication in Ghana indicates that while mobile data and SMS traffics increased year-on-year between quarter...
Telcos pay GHS5 to NCA for each SIM card registered
The GHS5 National Communications Authority (NCA) charges for SIM card registration is not only limited to the use of the self-service app but even...
Planned 2G, 3G switch-off in South Africa, Telcos want debate
South Africa’s biggest telecommunications operators, Vodacom, MTN and Telkom, have called for more consultation over government’s plan to terminate 2G and 3G services by 2025.
The...