Source: newsthemegh.com
In the West Gonja Municipality of the Savanna Region, the Minister of Communications and Digitalization, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, inaugurated two of the eight rural telephony sites on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
The two locations are situated in the Savanna Region at Mognori close to the Mole National Park and Sumpini close to Busunu.
The establishment of the rural telephony projects, according to Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful, is part of the president’s vision to expand telephony connectivity services to rural communities in the nation and to give them access to opportunities for the development of skills and knowledge as well as the growth of businesses and the local economy. She made this point in separate speeches in the two communities.
She went on to say that the project, which falls under the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), is an effort to connect the town and nearby communities to telecommunication services, saving the government up to 60% of the cost of conventional cell sites by providing voice and data services for more than four million people in underserved and unserved communities.
She claims that doing so will boost national mobile communication coverage from 83% to 95%, accelerating local economic growth and enhancing people’s quality of life.
The minister added that the president is determined to set up a minimal level of information technology infrastructure, such telephonic service, in the nation’s rural areas.
“The President continues to attach great importance to ensuring that Telecommunication and Information Communication Technology (ICT) facilities, which can now be described as basic necessities of life, are available in all parts of the country,” the spokesperson added.
She visited some of the uncommissioned sites that are still having difficulties during her five-day working visit to the area and informed the locals there that she will personally return in the coming two to three months to commission those sites because her organization is dedicated to bringing development to the doorsteps of the populace.
A total of 2,016 cell sites are being developed across Ghana, according to Mrs. Owusu Ekufful, with roughly half of them now operating at full capacity.