The Ghana Chamber of Technology (GCT) has described the recently directive by the National Communications Authority (NCA) that all sub-allocated short codes should be deactivated as anti-innovation and a move that threatens to defeat the regulator’s own mandate to ensure affordable world class and innovative services across the ecosystem. The Chamber’s comment is in response to an October 22, 2021 directive from the NCA to all industry players to deactivate all sub-allocated short codes that come in the form of extensions on short codes approved for specific service. NCA The NCA noted that industry players to whom short codes have been approved have also added extensions to those short codes and sub-allocated the extended versions to third parties to run other services not directly approved by the NCA. For example, for approved short codes like 311, the authorization holders add extensions like *311*1 or *311*2 and so on, and give those extended versions to other service provi...