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Tema, Ghana’s prominent Manufacturing and Associated Shipping hub recently received a big boost with the rollout of fiber optic infrastructure into the area, by MainOne, West Africa’s leading communications Services Company. Through the latest metropolitan fiber optic build into the Tema, the company intends to provide direct fiber connectivity solutions to key customers in the […]

Before the landing in 2010 of MainOne undersea cable system, West Africa’s Internet service market was characterized by the slow and exasperating access to the online space. Though in Nigeria, the vibrant telecommunications market had recorded significant milestones in terms of nominal growth and voice service uptake, following liberalization in 2001, the Internet service industry

Nigeria may fail to meet it’s lofty national broadband targets owing to scarcity of frequency spectrum, that is already hindering telecommunications companies from deploying efficient and reasonably priced Internet services across the country, industry observers have said. About 156 million Nigerians, out of a population of 170 million, the bulk of whom are rural dwellers,

MainOne Cable has pledged to deepen its footprint in the country’s broadband and internet market to support the growth of businesses in Ghana and the West African region.“We want to expand the network to get more customers connected, deliver value-added services, build infrastructure and services that support the internet ecosystem, and the oasis of services

The potential of broadband as an enabler for creating employment, increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was again brought to the fore by MainOne’s chief executive officer, Funke Opeke at the just concluded Commonwealth Broadband Forum in Abuja. The Forum was an initiative of the Commonwealth Telec…