LAGOS: MTN Ghana is continuing with their promises of boosting the rural telecom market by joining together with rural banks to make mobile money transfer services easier for users. The move is being seen as a positive step in developing the rural telecom sector and increasing penetration of both mobile phone use and mobile money in areas outside urban areas of the West African country. National Sales Executive Ebenezer Twum Asante said the company “was working out modalities with the ARP Apex Bank to ensure that all rural banks were networked and connected to the service by the end of April 2013." Asante said that at present, “the company had more than 11 million network subscribers representing 50.9 per cent of the market." Likewise, MTN Technical Manager Charles Osei Akoto said the company “was aware of the regular and intermittent network failures and assured users of network quality and stability in 2013." He argued that the company's fibre optic network reinforcement project “was still on course and on its completion, many concerns would be addressed," adding that through the ‘project hunter' initiative, “more than 60,000 subscribers had been connected to the MTN network this year."
