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    Annual rent for operators on new phone numbers

    According to a report on Modern Ghana, the National Communication Authority (NCA) "is now going to charge an annual rent on new blocks of phone numbers it would issue to operators".
    Annual rent for operators on new phone numbers
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    • Modern Ghana: NCA to charge annual rent on new phone numbers... The report by Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona, states that telcos were charged a flat rate of US$1million for new additional blocks of 10million numbers "but the NCA says the telcos are not managing the numbers efficiently".

      Deputy director of Regulatory Administration at the NCA, Patrick Laryea, said the initial flat rate was just the cost of the new code that came with the new block of numbers, so that initial charge would remain and the annual rent would be added to motivate telcos to manage the numbers judiciously.

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