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Ensuring Telco Connectivity Resilience: Ghana’s plan-Z path forward

Ensuring Telco Connectivity Resilience: Ghana’s plan-Z path forward

Ghana News, Science & Technology
Ghana’s telecommunications sector is the lifeblood of our nation’s progress, connecting businesses, communities, and government services. Yet, recurrent disruptions to telco undersea cables, often due to force majeure events, threaten to disrupt this vital connectivity. It’s time for decisive action to safeguard our digital future. These disruptions aren’t just inconveniences; they have far-reaching consequences that ripple through our economy and society. Businesses suffer losses, everyday life is disrupted, and crucial government operations grind to a halt. But amidst these challenges lies an opportunity for transformation. To mitigate the risks posed by undersea cable disruptions, Ghana must prioritize the implementation of Plan Z. This comprehensive strategy, spearheaded by t...
Apostle Eric Nyamekye urges government to consider innovative solutions to addressing plastic menace

Apostle Eric Nyamekye urges government to consider innovative solutions to addressing plastic menace

Ghana News, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle & Social
The Chairman of the Church of Pentecost (COP), Apostle Eric Kwabena Nyamekye, has reiterated the need for government to reconsider ways to discourage the single use of plastics in the country. He said plastic waste management is a huge challenge and the government needed to find innovative solutions to it. The Chairman was speaking to journalists during the COP National Environmental Care Campaign clean up exercise in Accra on Saturday March 16, 2024. He added that plastic waste management is an employment opportunity and a source of income so many people should be encouraged to explore and invest in plastic waste collection and recycling. "Let's see if some business entrepreneurs will come onboard and take charge of the plastics so that others will collect them at a fee a...
It may take 5 weeks to restore stable internet – NCA

It may take 5 weeks to restore stable internet – NCA

Africa News, Ghana News, Science & Technology
Ghanaians battling interruptions from their data service providers may have to wait for at least, another five weeks. This is because that is how long the National Communication Authority (NCA) estimates it may take for the faulty undersea cables to be restored, bringing back stable connections in the affected countries The NCA made this known in a press release on Saturday, March 16, 2024. This was after a meeting with the four subsea cable landing service providers (ACE, MainOne, SAT-3 and WACS). It comes three days after data services from most of the telecommunications companies shut down, impacting people and businesses in some African countries including Ghana. South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Benin, and Burkina Faso are among other nations bearing the bru...
Disruption to international submarine cables off the West African coast [West Africa Cable System (WACS), South Atlantic-3 (SAT-3), MainOne, Africa Coast to Europe (ACE)]

Disruption to international submarine cables off the West African coast [West Africa Cable System (WACS), South Atlantic-3 (SAT-3), MainOne, Africa Coast to Europe (ACE)]

Africa News, Science & Technology
Whilst the cause of the reported cable breaks off the Ivory Coast of West Africa has not yet been confirmed, Angola Cables (www.AngolaCables.co.ao) is ensuring that the impact on Angola and other African countries is being minimized by redirecting international data and traffic to the SACS cable, which connects Angola directly to Brazil and from there to the United States and Europe. Angola Cables has network backup and restoration solutions available through cables that have not been affected by the faults off the Ivory Coast. Our technical team is currently diligently working with industry partners to stabilise international connectivity and to ensure that we can provide support and guarantee the stability of services to African network operators and entities that need it. Dist...
MTN Ghana apologises to subscribers for internet connectivity challenges

MTN Ghana apologises to subscribers for internet connectivity challenges

Ghana News, Science & Technology
MTN Ghana has apologised to its subscribers for the challenges they faced in accessing data services and reaching its call center. The company assured that it is working to resolve the issue. “This is due to a disruption on our international undersea cables. Our technical teams are working with our international partners to resolve the issue”, a statement from MTN Ghana said.  “We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience and will keep subscribers updated”. Telecoms Chamber explains Earlier, the Ghana Chamber of telecommunications also attributed the difficult in accessing internet connectivity today March 14, 2024, to outages on multiple submarines optic fibre cables that come into Ghana. According to the chamber, some of the cables are down while others are de...
MADE IN GHANA

MADE IN GHANA

Ghana News, Lifestyle & Social
March is a special month on Ghana’s celebration calendar. The country gained independence from colonial rule on March 6, 1957 and since then, the day has been marked with festivities. However, in recent years, the euphoria has been high particularly with the advent of the Ghana Month which focuses on the promotion of locally made products–food, clothes, drinks, music among others.  Interestingly, flaunting traditional outfits and costumes peak during the period with a number of Ghanaians sporting their own styles to commemorate Ghana’s ‘birthday’ month.   Graphic Showbiz brings you some beautiful pictures of your fave celebs who caught our attention with their own style as they mark Ghana’s 67th Independence Day last week.  Feed your eyes! ...
Telecoms Chamber attributes internet connectivity challenges to outages on multiple submarine optic fibre cables

Telecoms Chamber attributes internet connectivity challenges to outages on multiple submarine optic fibre cables

Ghana News, Headlines Today, Science & Technology
The Ghana Chamber of telecommunications has attributed the difficulty in accessing internet connectivity today March 14, 2024, to outages on multiple submarine optic fibre cables that come into Ghana. According to the Chamber, some of the cables are down while others are delivering limited capacity. It said the development is impacting internet, data, and Voice Over IP services of the mobile network operators and data service providers to varying degrees. “As a result, customers and subscribers are currently experiencing service challenges,” a statement issued by the chamber said. It assured that further investigations are being carried out as well as work to resolve the problems to restore services to customers. “The inconvenience to customers is deeply regretted” the ...
Undersea fibre optic disruptions affect internet service in Ghana

Undersea fibre optic disruptions affect internet service in Ghana

Ghana News, Science & Technology
There is a nationwide internet disruption in Ghana and according to the National Communications Authority (NCA), it is due to outages on multiple submarine fibre optic cables that connect Ghana. The NCA in a press statement explained that multiple undersea cable disruptions have affected Mobile and Fixed Data services nationwide in Ghana. It said the disruptions affecting the multiple undersea cables responsible for carrying international traffic have occurred in Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire. There are also some disruptions in Portugal, it added.  This has led to a significant degradation of data services across Ghana. "It is important to note that the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are working around the clock to restore full services. In addition, the MNOs have informed a...
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