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CEO's
Speech in South Africa
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However,
with client ADSL circuits open 24 hours at over
256kbps each, Bandwidth soon become a problem.
Bandwidth in Ghana, where is the Broadband?
Cost of bandwidth is the “Achilles heel”
of Broadband in Ghana for the private operator.
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In 2003, and indeed today, 2mbps bandwidth
to a tier 1 backbone in the USA cost well over
$18k/month. Ghana Telecom in negotiations with
Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA)
reduced SAT-3 Bandwidth over 30%, however, there
appears to be limited technical capability to
deliver capacity.
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However, SAT-3 is owned by a consortium
and Ghana Telecom is reported to have invested
over $20 million dollars. As a result, while the
price for a 45mbps, transatlantic to the UK and
to Sesimbra, Portugal is about $10k/month the
price via SAT-3 to Accra is 154k/month. This high
cost of landing bandwidth to Accra is justified
by Ghana Telecom as necessary to ensure return
on its investment in SAT-3.
The Ghanaian challenge the question at this forum
therefore is:
Does the $20 million investment of Ghana Telecom
in SAT-3, justify the high cost of Bandwidth and
by so doing disenfranchise all Ghanaians??
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From a national perspective, the cost
of terrestrial transmission out of Accra aggravates
the situation further. Having landed bandwidth
into Accra at over $170,000/month, a 2mbps link
to the second largest city, Kumasi, cost a further
$5k/month, the third largest city, Takoradi a
further $5k/month.
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However, InternetGhana operates a single
service rate, countrywide, a major challenge for
any private operator who depends on third party
terrestrial networks to reach cities remote from
the SAT-3 landing station in Accra, the capital.
At InternetGhana, we have transcended the matter
of the technical and financial barriers to broadband
deployment in Ghana.
However, the biggest and the most severe challenge
to InternetGhana is the competitive barrier to
our continuing ability to deploy broadband in
Ghana. MORE
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