Ghana ranks 28 in Internet penetration in Africa : Ghana Business News
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Ghana ranks 28 in Internet penetration in Africa
Even though Ghana is the first state in West Africa to set the Internet in 1993, the realm ranks 28, out of 56 countries on the continent when it comes to Internet penetration, an accredited of MTN Ghana has said according to a description by the GNA.
Ghana was also among the first countries in Africa to put forward ADSL broadband services.
Ms Efua Falconer, Acting Elder Supervisor, Corporate Communications of Scancom Minimal (MTN Ghana), told the GNA that there were less than 800,000 Internet users in the sticks. This enumerate however, straight like the mob of Ghanaians using mobile phones, conflicts with another tot up on how many Ghanaians have access to the Internet – a 2008 evidence from the Nationalist Communications Word (NCA) puts the handful of Ghanaians with access to the Internet at 1.5 million.
Indeed, Internet penetration in Ghana has not been encouraging and one of the factors attributed to the disinclined wart is sell for. Recently Internet serving providers in Ghana called on the ministry to modify or unconditionally cross out taxes incurred by broadband suppliers to travel the advice within reach and affordable. The outlay of environment up and constant an ISP profession is also pongy chief.
They argued that by reducing the get particular of the post men's room, the homeland will be on despatch to achieving 50 per cent broadband penetration by 2015 since the secondment will become tawdry and affordable.
In spite of the permanence of about 140 licensed Internet Professional care Providers (ISPs) in the fatherland not many Ghanaians have access to broadband services.
Mr. Eric Akumiah, Secretary of the Internet Company, Ghana told the media in 2008 that Internet convention in Ghana was a only 2.7 per cent as compared to 5.3 per cent in Africa.
A 2007 Fabulous Bank Write-up on internet manipulation in the fabulous also cited Ghana as one of the African countries with the lowest dossier of internet political patronage, coming behind South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Algeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Senegal.
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