MTN Ghana has rolled out additional 1,142 4G sites and modernized the 820 existing 4G sites, increasing its 4G population coverage by 8.7 percentage points year-on-year (YoY) to 99.3% as at the end of 2022.
Speaking at the 2023 MTN Stakeholder forum in Accra on the theme; ‘Leveraging Technology to serve customers with excellence’, the CEO of MTN, Selorm Adedevoh said the objective is to expand network experience and coverage.
To advance network experience and coverage, we rolled out 400 2G, 400 3G and 1,142 4G sites, modernized 820 existing 4G sites, increasing its 4G population coverage by 8.7 percentage points year-on-year (YoY) to 99.3%,” he explained.
He added that, “Our areas of focus include improving customer experience across all services and regions to further enhance subscriber growth and usage of our services”.
Commenting on 5G, the CEO said, MTN is ready for the challenge and is only waiting on the authorities to put the right framework in place.
When they are ready, we are ready, for now we are waiting just like everyone else,” he noted.
In 2021, the company announced that it was modernizing its infrastructure and working with regulators towards 5G and that it will seek to have and pilot 5G mobile connectivity operating in Ghana by 2023.
Having realised the demand for mobile connectivity grow rapidly every year, MTN Ghana continues to invest a significant amount of money in making its network even better.
MTN Ghana was the first telco to launch 4G services in Ghana. MTN Ghana acquired their 4G license in December 2015. They promised to launch commercially in six months and true to their word they did.
MTN Ghana has so far installed 4G in all the 260 district cell sites.
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