Government has reached an agreement with the three major telecommunication companies in the country to offer cheaper internet data bundles for all internet users in the country, the Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations Samuel Nartey George has announced.
Per the Special Independence Day Package, “all three telecom companies – MTN Ghana, Telecel Ghana and AT Ghana – have agreed to offer a GHS10 bundle which would offer 6GB of data instead of the usual 1GB regular offering or 3GB offerings on holidays for the same price”.
“This highlights our commitment as a government to build the enablers for a truly digitalized Ghana that offers the vast opportunity of the interconnected world to Ghanaians right in the comfort of their homes.”
He further announced that the ministry will, tomorrow, outline short, medium and long term plans towards sustainably bringing the cost of internet data bundles down.
Many Ghanaian internet users decried the cost of data in recent years especially in the peak of the economic crisis.
Sam George and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who were then opposition, criticised the then Akufo-Addo administration for failing to take measures that would reduce the cost and promised to do so if they were voted into government.
After his appointment as minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Sam George has since set a committee to deliberate on reviewing the cost of internet service in the country.
