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Sagnarigu, Ghana – Corporate Services Executive of MTN Ghana, Samuel Koranteng, has appealed to Ghanaian road contractors to be extra vigilant when constructing major roads in any part of the country.
According to Mr. Koranteng, MTN Ghana has underground fibre optic cables laid out across the country along major roads within and in the outskirts of townships.
He told journalists at the 2019 MTN Editor’s forum in Sagnarigu on Thursday that, many times road contractors in a hurry to do their work, cut off these underground fibre optic cables thereby causing operational challenges to the company.
“For every single fibre optic cable cut, MTN spends more than Gh6,000 to repair it. And so when you have a situation where there are multiple cuts as a result of road construction, it impacts negatively on our budget and quality of service to clients. This is because we spend more money to repair the cables and we also lose more customers due to their inability to access our services.
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“Apart from road contractors, thieves also go about stealing these cables because of their pricy nature. For 2018 alone, more than 800 fibre cuts were recorded across the country and that took a heavy toll on our operations”, Mr. Koranteng emphasized.
The MTN Editors Forum is an annual event that brings together senior staff of MTN Ghana and editors of selected media houses to share information on happenings in the Ghanaian telecom industry.
About 40 journalists from newspaper, radio, television and online attended the programme.
Technical Manager in charge of Bono East and Ahafo Regions as well as the five regions of the North, Joseph Kwadwo Addai in a presentation, said Tamale currently has more 4G sites than all the other regional and district capitals.
He therefore appealed to the media to assist MTN Ghana to campaign relentlessly against fibre cuts so that Ghanaians can enjoy quality uninterrupted service.
Mr. Addai also noted that, network upgrading is currently ongoing across the country and soon communities that have challenges with their network will no longer experience such challenges.
By Savannahnewsonline.com/Philip Liebs
