29 August 2023
The Republic of Ghana has decided not to auction 5G frequencies as is generally done in international telecom standards..png?lu=569)
To ensure that this technology and 4G are fully available nationwide, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the minister of communication and digitization, revealed that the government has agreed to create a company for this purpose. neutral shared infrastructure. This will make the appropriate telecom networks available to telecom operators.
“We will also work with network operators and private investors to build a 4G and 5G network, so we are not going to auction 5G, we are giving it to these networks so that all operators can use it. use and extend it to about 80% of the population,” said Owusu-Ekuful.
In several African countries where the 5G license has been awarded to telecom operators, there has been a delay in the effective deployment of the network throughout the national territory. The service has always been mainly concentrated in a part of the capital and a few main secondary towns, thus depriving potential consumers of access to high quality connectivity.
This is still the case for 4G. According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Global Connectivity Report 2022, 4G coverage in Africa only reaches nearly 45% of the population. However, the technology has been introduced to the continent's telecom market since 2013 and its deployment accelerated in 2015.
