In 2013, President John Dramani Mahama took a moment during the annual “State of the Nation” address in Accra to hail the rise of the domestic telecom sector, noting that telephone subscriptions in Ghana had more than doubled since December 2008. The remark highlighted the industry’s success in increasing penetration beyond the regional averages....
The trend towards knowledge- and service-based economies is increasingly widespread among emerging and frontier markets, whether they are resource-rich or resource-poor. The benefits of driving growth in the tertiary sector are well known, but the recipes for success are not. However, Ghana’s economic and political stability, combined with its...
Now entering its 20th year, the Ghanaian mobile market has evolved into one of the most developed in sub-Saharan Africa. The country has six telecoms operators all vying for the custom of the country’s 24.9m inhabitants. Falling tariffs, improved coverage and the consistently timed roll-out of new products have resulted from the increased...
The trend towards knowledge- and service-based economies is increasingly widespread among emerging and frontier markets, whether they are resource-rich or resource-poor. The benefits of driving growth in the tertiary sector are well known, but the recipes for success are not. However, Ghana’s economic and political stability, combined with its...
The proliferation of the digital medium in Ghana has seen some surprising leaps and bounds in recent years. Although the traditional evolution from fixed-line phone services to fixed-line internet and broadband service has not occurred, a growing number of Ghanaians access the internet through mobile links. As a result, the private sector has begun...
The growth of mobile financial services in Africa is having an undeniable impact across the continent, and Ghana is no exception. The ability to transfer money via mobile phones enables migrants who have moved to urban centres for work to send remittances to relatives still living in remote rural areas absent of any sort of bank or financial...
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