Ghana's Forum Network Limited (FNL) announced on Friday that it has developed a new audio conferencing system that the company argued can “easily be used by every average Ghanaian family, social, religious, media and business group” for any meetings and conferences they may have scheduled. Owned by 2008 presidential candidate Kwesi Amoafo-Yeboah, Forum believes their new, easy-to-use technology will make conferencing in the country and across West Africa easier for users. According to Forum, the new audio conference system “allows users to log on to to obtain their own conference phone number and access code” from the company's website, which they argue will allow meetings to take place virtually with ease, and not force people to be in the same room. The system allow up to 1,000 people to hold an audio conference via their mobile phones and pay the normal call rate, no extra charge, the company said on its website. “It also allows people to call into church meetings and listen to preaching live, or into conference, press conference and participate,” Amoafo-Yeboah told reporters. He said that the new system “was designed to cut out the cost, time and risk involved in people having to travel to social and business meetings, and to enable people to do meetings electronically and pay only the normal phone call rate.” The company utilizes the MTN network in the country. “There is an estimated 17 million mobile phone subscribers using more than 21 million mobile phone lines in Ghana, and that meant the use of the mobile phone for communication is already relatively huge in the country,” he added. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/XdrkL Tags: Conferencing, Forum Network, Ghana, Telecom Section: Tech, West Africa
