{"id":3308,"date":"2019-04-09T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2019-04-09T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T11:31:36","slug":"mtn-ghana-injects-160m-to-network-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/mtn-ghana-injects-160m-to-network-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN Ghana injects $160m to network upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MTN Ghana is to spend $160 million&nbsp;in improving network technology and information technology in 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CEO of the telecoms giant, Sedem Adadevor, has been speaking to Joy Business on the motive behind this initiative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, MTN Ghana will in 2019 be focusing heavily on \nimproving the lot of customers. He listed some 10 targets his outfit \nhopes to achieve including incorporating the use of solar energy at cell\n sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Adadevor says MTN Ghana will be committing some \u00a2160 million to \nimprove service delivery and upgrade its network as it rolls out 4G+.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, the CEO has announced 2019 as the Year of the Customer as\n the company extends its technology leadership through Long Term \nEvolution (LTE) and 4G+. A principal highlight of the \u2018Customer-centric\u2019\n era is the soon to be launched MTN TurboNet router, a plug and play \ninternet router which comes with high powered external antenna and data \nSIM which enables it to deliver fast internet in the company\u2019s 4G \nlocations,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/mtn-wins-employer-of-the-year-and-5-others-at-hr-awards\/\">MTN Ghana<\/a> has made enquiries into the available remaining 2x5MHz  spectrum lots in the 800MHz band for its future network expansion for  continuous customers improved experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spectrums were left after Vodafone Ghana bought one for $30 million December last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMTN intends to acquire this remaining spectrum in future to enable \nit to continue to give its customers an increasingly better experience \non the network,\u201d Acting Corporate Services Executive at MTN, Robert \nKuzoe, wrote to Adom News in response to a questionnaire in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nca.org.gh\/the-nca\/what-we-do\/\">National Communications Authority<\/a> (NCA) auctioned three  separate 2x5MHz spectrum lots in the 800MHz band, it excluded MTN from  the tender process because MTN had already acquired a 2x10MHz lot in the  same band in December 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: myjoyonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MTN Ghana is to spend $160 million&nbsp;in improving network technology and information technology in 2019.&nbsp; CEO of the telecoms giant, Sedem Adadevor, has been speaking <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/mtn-ghana-injects-160m-to-network-upgrades\/\" title=\"MTN Ghana injects $160m to network upgrades\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-mtn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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