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Ghana Deploying Internet Point of Presence to all District Capitals

The Ghana government has awarded a $150 million contract to Huawei Technologies, a Chinese-based ICT and telecommunication infrastructure company, to provide modern infrastructure to ensure internet broadband availability countrywide within the next 24 month.

Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, announced at the opening of a two-day international conference on Business Processes Outsourcing (BPO) that the infrastructure was expected to facilitate the linking of Internet Point of Presence to all district capitals under the government’s ICT Backbone Development Programme.

Ghana invests $150m in nationwide broadband infrastructure

Submitted by Wayan Vota on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 03:48
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Wayan Vota

Inveneo

Wayan Vota is a technology expert focused on appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) for rural and underserved areas of the developing world. He is a Senior Director at Inveneo and is the editor of ICTworks

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