CTO assists Ghana’s NCA complete 5-year strategic telecoms plan
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) has completed a project to assist Ghana’s telecom regulator – the National Communications Authority (NCA) to development a five-year strategic plan.
According to the CTO in a statement January 17, 2012, the Plan will help the NCA to continue facilitating the fast growth that Ghana’s ICT sector has witnessed over the last decade with mobile penetration rate moving from 0.67% to 81%.
The Strategic Plan provides the NCA to ensure effective market competition, streamline spectrum regulation, improve consumer relations and most importantly accelerate broadband communications in Ghana.
In addition to formulating new strategic objectives, the CTO said it worked with the NCA to design a new institutional framework for the agency to ensure the Authority has the structure and human capacity to meet its objectives “as well as proposing some changes to the structure of the Authority, the framework details training requirements that will help the NCA meet current and future challenges.”
“The development of new Strategic Plans by Regulators is becoming ever more important as ICT sectors become more competitive, complex and diverse. The CTO is delighted to have been able to assist the NCA with the development of its Strategic Plan that will enable it to seize the opportunities created by the improvement in ICT infrastructure and access. Collaboration between the NCA and CTO has been very successful, and the CTO looks forward to assisting the NCA implement the plan over the coming years,” said CTO’s Chief Executive Officer Professor Tim Unwin.
By Ekow Quandzie