Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has given an assurance to the youth of Ghana that he will deal with the high data prices.
He says he intends to create competition among the telcos to ensure that data prices are reduced to the lowest possible minimum.
The former president, who wants to be president again, made this known when he organized a town hall meeting with some youth of the country.
“The thing about data is that it’s about competition. One telco has a monopoly because it has the largest network, so it can increase its price. But if there was competition…If you look at Airtel and Glo, they are lagging, so it’s left with only Vodafone and MTN.
What we have to do is ensure that the other telcos receive the needed support to be able to compete with the giants in the industry to allow for the rates to be reduced,” he said.
He added, “Right now there is a new technology called satellite internet and it is now penetrating space. If it can penetrate, it will help reduce internet rates, and this will bring about competition in space. We also need high-speed internet, that is why we are looking at getting 5G. You can use AI and others with 5G so we will speed up the process so that we can have internet speed for people in the internet space,” he said.
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Source: MyNewsGh.com
