TECHNOLOGY

The mass re-registration of subscriber identification module (SIM) cards across the country is scheduled to begin today, Friday, October 1. The six-month exercise is expected to take data from all SIM card users across the country. The National ID card, the Ghana Card, is the only document of identification for the exercise. Announcing this early last month, Minister of Communications ...

The 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, have announced the addition of a new segment – the 2Africa PEARLS branch – extending to the Arabian Gulf, India, and Pakistan. This extension will bring the total length of the 2Africa cable system to over 45,000 kilometres, making it the longest ...

Bisa Technologies, one of Ghana’s leading software developing companies, has developed a new free mobile health application to provide public education on Covid-19 and respond to pressing questions from the public about the pandemic. Designed with the motive of reducing face to face doctor consultation and congestion at health facilities, the all-new Bisa App will allow patients to have direct ...

With an estimated population of 31,358,190, the total subscriptions of data in the country at the end of July 2021 were 23,052,260. The penetration rate for the period stood at 73.97%. 4.1. MTN ended the month of July with 15,572,977 mobile data subscriptions. Their market share for the month under review was 67.56%. The total number of subscriptions for Vodafone’s ...

Nigeria’s Information Minister Lai Mohammed has said the country would “in a few more days” lift the ban on social media platform Twitter. He, however, did not give a specific date when pressed, Reuters news agency reports. Mr Mohammed said Nigerian authorities and Twitter officials had to “dot the I’s and cross the T’s.. it’s just going to be very, ...

Shares in Chinese technology giant Alibaba have fallen sharply after a report that its financial affiliate Ant Group is again under scrutiny. Regulators want to break up Alipay, which is China’s biggest payments app with more than a billion users, according to the Financial Times. A separate platform for the app’s profitable lending operation would be created under the plan. ...

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has received more than five million shares in the technology giant, as he marks ten years in the job. A company filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) watchdog shows that he sold most of the shares for more than $750m (£550m). It is part of a deal he struck when he took ...

MTN Ghana has increased its efforts to protect customers against Mobile Money fraud. The measures include blocking of devices across all networks. This was revealed by the Chief Executive Officer of the telecom giant Selorm Adadevoh on Friday. “We have come together as a chamber to say how do we intensify or increase the barriers to fraud and blocking a ...

InvestCorp Asset Management Limited (InvestCorp), the premier investment banking and asset management firm, has out doored its new electronic services platform dubbed ‘InvestCorp e-Hub’ aimed at enabling clients interact with the company conveniently. Key features of the InvestCorp e-Hub include an upgraded website to keep stakeholders abreast with relevant investment and firm information; a new online self-service portal to allow ...

Tech giant Samsung Electronics has said it expects its quarterly profit to rise by 53% amid a global chip shortage. The world’s biggest memory-chip and smartphone maker forecast operating profit of $11bn (£8bn) for the three months to the end of June. It said strong demand for memory chips had offset weaker sales of devices due to the shortage of ...