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The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has constructed over 1,000 rural telephony sites under the Ghana Rural Telephony and Digital Inclusion Project (The GRT&DIP) to expand mobile network connectivity to unconnected rural communities. The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, who disclosed this in Accra on Sunday [Feb 18, 2024], said as of this month, 1,010 of the planned 2,016 sites had been constructed, with 618 of them already operational. They were offering essential voice and data services to citizens in about 1,620 rural communities, the minister added. Taking her turn at the Ministers’ Press Briefing at the Ministry…