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Comm. ministry allegedly mulls DUOPOLY in Ghana’s telecom industry

  Information reaching TechGH24 indicates that there are ongoing discussions within the corridors of the Ministry of Communications and Digitalization about creating a duopoly in Ghana telecoms industry. A duopoly means there will be only two key players on the telecoms market – most likely MTN and one other player. The source indicated that the idea is to have another player that can give the overwhelming market leader, MTN, fair competition, which would go a long way to benefit Ghanaians in terms of quality of service and affordability. It is not clear how the ministry intends to go about it, but the source, who is an expert industry player, thinks the best way to do it is to merge AirtelTigo and Vodafone, which will create an a sizeable entity with over 40% market share and can compete well with MTN. Glo has been struggling to survive in the market with a market share hovering around one per cent most of the time. At the last count, MTN had 57% voice market share and a whopping ...