Ursula Owusu Ekufful

Ghana To Establish Free Roaming Service With Togo, Benin And Gambia – Ursula

Ghana To Establish Free Roaming Service With Togo, Benin And Gambia – Ursula

The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says Ghana will soon establish bilateral ECOWAS roaming service with Togo, Benin, and the Gambia. This follows Ghana's successful implementation of a similar pact with Côte d'Ivoire in 2023. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Sunday, February 18, 2024, the Minister, who is also the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West, said Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire in June 2023 became the first ECOWAS countries to implement the ECOWAS Free Roaming initiative. The free roaming service simply means that Ghanaians subscribers visiting Côte d'Ivoire will receive calls without paying roaming fees and…
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NITA Should Be The Heart Of Ghana’s ICT Ecosystem – Minister For Communication

NITA Should Be The Heart Of Ghana’s ICT Ecosystem – Minister For Communication

The Minister for Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has emphasised the need to empower the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) with a Legislative Instrument (LI) to enable the agency effectively to regulate and enforce the laws in the ICT ecosystem in Ghana. She noted that there are laws intended to regulate ICT in Ghana but due to the absence of a backing of the Legislative Instrument, it is very difficult to operationalize them. “If you want to register service providers, they will ask you, how are you going to do it? We can’t just make it up if we go…
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