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Ghana targets 11m broadband connections

By Nadine Arendse
Johannesburg, 12 Jul 2012

Ghana targets 11m broadband connections

The GSMA has projected that the spectrum that would be freed from the migration from analogue to digital television systems by 2015 would triple mobile broadband capacity and lead to 11 million broadband connections in Ghana by 2020, reports Modern Ghana.

The world is moving towards phasing out analogue TV sets for digital TV by June 2015, but Ghana is working towards completing the process even a year earlier in 2014.

Director of spectrum policy for the GSMA, Africa and Middle East Region, Peter Lyons told journalists that if the spectrum is freed, “it will yield what we call digital dividend for mobile broadband operators, TV broadcasters, the people of Ghana and for the state as whole,” writes Joy online.

This was after a day's workshop in Accra on how to speed up expansion of quality broadband service in Ghana.

The National Communications Authority plans to free up broadband spectrum for telecom companies to expand mobile broadband penetration by 2015, reports Ghana Web.

This is expected to contribute about 1.5 billion cedis to GDP, create nearly one million jobs and also improve the quality of TV broadcasting.

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