Telecom liberalization in Ghana: the gains

Those were the dark old days of the Ghana Post and Telecommunications monopoly.

In 1995 Ghanaians had to scrape together more than US$1000 to buy their first connected mobile phones with very limited coverage since the country had few traditional telephone lines. A few years later the GSM system introduced a chip that was going for around $200 – a very rare commodity...

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