MTN over the years

The last years has seen massive evolution in the telecommunication landscape in Ghana. One cannot talk about this without mentioning the massive evasion of the private telecommunications networks in the country gradually pushing the government owned enterprise to follow.

 MTN, a major name in the Ghanaian telecommunication industry is the hallmark of such an evolution. From spacefone, which was one of the earliest to reach the shores of this land it was patronized by the rich and well to do in the country. Their sim cards sold for about 100 thousand cedis in the old currency which was a sign of wealth for those using the network and the general mobile phone using majority as cell phones now did not have the popularity they once had. It was then sold Areeba, a multi-nation company in 2005, with its evolution characterized by the name spacefone-areeba.

 This take over was soon completed when the company became finally known as Areeba. Areeba had its fair share of challenges as the competition from buzz, now Tigo and Ghana telecom, now Vodafone was very stern; they finally raised the red flag and sold the company to world communication giants MTN, who saw Ghana as a new market after conquering Nigeria. With the signature 024 pre-fix code MTN Ghana reached out to many, making their network the most oughted for network in the country with over a million subscribers nationwide. Their landmark achievement was characterized by the introduction of a new pre-fix code, 054. in order to fight off competition from the growing telecommunication market MTN has a lot of mouthwatering call and internet packages just to meet the market demand, these included the MTN free beyond where customers could make call for free after paying for the first three minutes.

Despite their great deals and offer we subscribers have our own problems with the network as they massively suck credits when we make calls or try to browse. You sometimes buy a two-cedi scratch card only to be told you have no call minutes left just five minutes into the call.

The only thing which kept my hopes in the network was the little bonus credit you are given for recharging your account which we both know how that ends.