WTSID Celebrations; ICTs and Improving Road Safety
Ghana joined the rest of the world to celebrate the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on Friday May 17, 2013. The day marked the 148th anniversary of signatories to the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865 which, led to the creation of the International Telecommunication Union. READ MORE
NATCOM benchmarks NCA
A delegation from Sierra Leone’s National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) has concluded a study visit to the National Communications Authority (NCA) from Monday May 6th to Thursday May 9th, 2013. READ MORE
Data Subscriptions As At March 2013
The National Communications Authority reports that’s as at 31st March 2013, there were 8,895,430 mobile data subscriptions which represents 34.5% penetration rate. The March figures amounts to an increase of 0.9% compared to February 2013. READ MORE
Cellular/Mobile Voice Market Share (March, 2013)
The National Communications Authority has released the market statistics mobile subscribers for March 2013.
In
the period under review the total number of mobile subscriptions was
recorded as 26,464,964 from 26,324,702 posted in the previous month,
representing an increase of 0.5 percent during the period and 1.3
percent when compared to the same period of the previous year. READ MORE
NCA Authorizes New Radio Stations
NCA has announced the authorization to three new community and nine commercial radio stations. Community broadcasting is non-profit service and is owned and managed by particular communities. The principal aim is to serve and benefit the particular communities. It is, in effect, a form of public-service broadcasting, but serves specific communities rather than the entire nation. READ MORE
Request For Expression Of Interest
Accreditation of Test labs for the
Compliance Testing of digital terrestrial television (DTT) receivers in accordance
with the Ghana DTT Conformance Regime
Accreditation of Test labs for the Compliance Testing of digital terrestrial television (DTT) receivers in accordance with the Ghana DTT Conformance Regime The National Communications Authority is carrying out a transition of television broadcasting services in the frequency bands 174–230 MHz and 470–862 MHz from analogue to digital technology. READ MORE
NCA To Hold Data Collection Workshops In Kumasi And Takoradi For Broadcasting Entities
The National Communications Authority (NCA), will be organizing a workshop on Industry Data Collection on Tuesday 23rd April at Miklin Hotel in Kumasi, from 9.30am to 12.30pm for all FM radio broadcasting entities in Ashanti and Brong Ahafo region. A Similar Industry Data Collection workshop will be held at Akroma Plaza in Takoradi, on the 25th April 2013, from 9.30am to 12.30pm for all FM broadcasting entities in Central and Western region. READ MORE
NCA Data Collection Workshop
The National Communications Authority on Wednesday April 10, 2013, held the first in a series of Data Workshops for the FM Broadcasting sector in Ghana. The workshop was held at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel under the theme ‘Reliable Data Collection’. READ MORE
February figures for mobile voice telephone subscribers in Ghana have shown a growth rate of 1.1o%. January figures recorded 26,037,525 while the subscriber base for February stood at 26,324,702.
MTN comfortably maintained its position as the dominant mobile operator. Its subscriber base of the 26,324,702 was 11,941,887. READ MORE
Press Release: Industry Data Collection
The National Communications Authority (NCA), will be organizing a workshop on Industry Data Collection on Wednesday 10th April 2013, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra. Per section 2(8) of the Electronic Communications Act 2oo8, the Authority is empowered to conduct research into social, economic, cultural, and technical issues relating to broadcasting in order to enable the Authority to carry out its mandate efficiently. READ MORE
Notice To The General Public On Fibre Cuts And Its Effect On Communication Services
The National Communications Authority (NCA) recounts with grave concern, recent fibre cuts across the country, particularly along the Accra-Kumasi and Tarkwa-Dunkwa roads, which have adversely affected the operations of telecommunications services in the country.
Fibre optic cables are needed to facilitate enhanced access to broadband services for all persons living in Ghana. However these are being cut regularly, sometimes on a daily basis, resulting in disruption of vital communications services to schools, hospitals, disaster areas, and the general public. READ MORE
BWA Licence Winners
The National Communications Authority (NCA) hereby announces the successful conclusion of its selection process for the award of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) licences in the 2500 – 2690 MHz band. READ MORE
Minimum Specifications for Receivers of Free to Air Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in Ghana
The National
Communications Authority (NCA) announces the release of the Minimum Specifications for Receivers of
Free to Air Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in Ghana. This is in
pursuance of the Authority’s mandate under Section 3(a) of the National Communications
Authority Act, 2008, Act 769 to establish and
monitor the implementation of national communications standards and ensure
compliance accordingly. READ MORE
How To Avoid Bill Shocks When Roaming
Keeping in touch with friends and family does not have to break the bank when you are abroad! The chances are that, if you don't plan ahead, tapping into local phone networks when you're on the road can cost you a bundle! READ MORE
NCA Has Lifted Directive To Cease Selling And/Or Adding SIM Cards To The MTN Network
Since the directive to cease selling and/or adding new SIM cards/subscribers to MTN network until further notice, the Authority has been monitoring quality of service Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (i.e. call drop rate, call setup time, call congestion rate, and stand-alone-dedicated control channel congestion rate) on MTN network. READ MORE
Quality of Service Report for November 2012
In
pursuance of the mandate of the Authority to ensure fair competition
and protect the consumer, Quality of Service (QoS) obligations have been
outlined in Annex D1 and D2 of the cellular mobile licence. READ MORE
NCA Response - Interferance with NET2 TV signals
The attention of the National Communications Authority (NCA) has been drawn to some media allegations that the Authority is interfering with the radio signals of NET2 TV.
This allegation is as unfounded as it is unfortunate. To interfere with radio signals would require use of a transmitter. The NCA does not have a transmitter and therefore cannot cause interference to any radio signal. READ MORE
Notice To Importers Of All Radio And Telecommunications Equipment
The National Communications Authority (NCA) hereby wishes to inform the general public that, with effect from Monday, 10th December 2012, the submission of all applications for permits to clear radio and telecommunications equipment from all points of entry into Ghana, shall be made exclusively online READ MORE
Joint Communique - National Media Commission (NMC) And The National Communications Authority (NCA)
The National Media Commission (NMC) and the National Communications Authority (NCA) met today, Tuesday, 4th December, 2012 to discuss ways to improve broadcasting regulation in order to ensure free and responsible coverage of the elections especially on Election Day and the immediate post-election period. READ MORE
Directive To Cease Selling And/Or Adding Of New SIM Cards On MTN Network
Following the recent spate of service disruptions on the MTN network, the National Communications Authority (NCA) has had to engage Scancom Ltd, on several occasions, on the issues of quality of service degradation (i.e. network reliability, network availability, call drop, call set-up, denial of service etc) being experienced by consumers of mobile services. READ MORE
Two NCA Staff Appointed To ITU Positions
Two senior managers of the National Communications Authority (NCA) have been appointed to various positions at the last meeting of the World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA) of the ITU in Dubai. READ MORE
Africa ICT Week: Promoting Pan-Africanism And African Renaissance
The African
Union has set aside the 19th to 24th of November as
Africa ICT week in recognition of the ever increasing relevance of the convergence
of telecommunications computer and audio-visuals in the last two decades or so
in an information age. The week thus underlines the importance that information,
knowledge and technology play in modern socio-economic
development by highlighting the importance of ICT as a tool of development. READ MORE
Telecoms Must Be Resilient To Disasters - Panelists
Panelists from the ITU-T Focus Group on Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery (FG-DR&NRR) has clearly demonstrated the need for telecommunications networks to be resilient to natural and human-induced disasters. READ MORE
PURA Gambia Taps NCA Experience
A 4-member
delegation from The Gambia Public Utilities & Regulatory Authority (PURA)
has paid a working visit to the NCA in Accra.
The delegation led by Rodine Renner was the second of
such delegation to visit NCA to learn from its rich store of experience. A
first delegation had been in the country for 2 weeks to understudy NCA’s
international call by-pass experience. READ MORE
NCA Consoles Melcom Disaster Victims
The
Board, Management and Staff of the National Communications Authority
have received with shock, the devastating news of the collapse of the
premises housing the Achimota Melcom shopping complex. READ MORE
Digital Terrestrial Pay Television Service Authorisations - Request For Applications
1. The NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY (NCA) in
consultation with the National Media Commission (NMC) invites applications from
eligible Entities registered under the Ghana Companies Code, 1963, Act 179 for
the grant of authorizations to establish, maintain and operate Digital Terrestrial Pay TV Services. READ MORE
NCA Mourns H.E. Prof. J.E.A Mills
With a deep sense of grief, we pay tribute to the memory of our late President and Father of our motherland Ghana. Prof, as he was affectionately called, was personable, humble, kind and warm. He was the embodiment of love and concern for his family, friends and the entirety of Ghanaians. Prof was a very pleasant personality who combined hard work with credible and amazing brilliance and this endeared him to all who came into contact with him. READ MORE
NCA Shares Experiences With Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK)
A 4-member delegation from the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has visited NCA to interact with management on how the Authority manages Ghana's international gateway. READ MORE
Ghana Heads Africa QoS Regulatory Compliance Workshop
The ITU-T has completed its workshop on Practical Measurement of QoS/ QoE for Regulatory Compliance in Cotonou, Benin ahead of the 4th ITU-T Study Group 12 Regional Group for Africa meeting. The July 16 to 17 workshop was lead by ITU-T Study Group 12 Regional Africa Chair; Mr. Kwame Baah-Acheamfuor, a Principal Manager at the National Communications Authority. READ MORE
ITU Honours NCA’s Joshua Peprah.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has honoured the contribution of Mr. Joshua Peprah, Director of Regulatory Administration at the National Communications Authority (NCA). The honour in the form of a citation was bestowed on him at the last conference of the Union in Geneva, Switzerland, for what it described as his immense contribution towards the ITU-T Telecommunication Standardisation Advisory Group. READ MORE
Minister For Communications Strive To Bridge Digital Divide
An 11 member national committee on girls in ICT has been formed to design and implement a Programme that will ensure awareness-raising and policy intervention towards mainstreaming girls in ICT. More importantly, the major outcome of the Programme should be an increase in the number of girls (women) participating in the field of ICT at all levels including research, policy formulation, decision-making, design, production, delivery, usage, repair and maintenance. READ MORE
Mobile Number Portability - The First Year
The National Communications Authority (NCA) introduced Mobile Number Portability (MNP) on 7 July 2011. We are pleased to report that one year after MNP was launched, a total of 370,107 mobile numbers had been moved between networks by their owners. READ MORE
Avoid Being 'Slammed' or 'Crammed'
There are now lots of operators competing to offer telephony services to consumers. Competition they say has many benefits, including choice and ultimately lower prices but the negative side of it is that operators become aggressive in the quest to maintain its market share and profits. READ MORE
NCA Cautions Frequency Authorisation Holders Against Abuse Of Licence Conditions And Other Enactment
NEWS RELEASE – JUNE 13, 2012
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has drawn the attention of all FM Radio and Television Broadcasting Frequency Authorisation Holders to the provisions of their respective Authorisations which enjoin them to adhere to the terms and conditions stated therein as well as to comply with the provision of the Acts and Regulations of the NCA. READ MORE
Glo Mobile Ghana Limited Honours NCA’s Sanction
The National Communications Authority (NCA) announces that Glo Mobile Ghana Limited (Glo) has honoured, in full, the sanctions imposed on the company by the Authority for failing to meet its network roll-out obligations in its Mobile Cellular Licence. READ MORE
SIM Box Raid In Ghana
An anti fraud collaboration between the National Communications Authority (NCA), all telecom service providers in the country and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has led to the arrest of a six-members SIM Box syndicate operating between Oregon in the United States of America and Accra, Ghana. READ MORE
Further Sanctions for Telcos
The National Communications Authority has again imposed sanctions on MTN, Vodafon and Tigo for various QoS infractions after Quality of Service tests for March, 2012. READ MORE
WTSID Celebrations; Ghanaian Women Empowered
Ghana joined the rest of the world to celebrate the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on Thursday May 17, 2012. The day marked the 147th anniversary of signatories to the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865 which, led to the creation of the International Telecommunication Union. READ MORE
NCA Director General Recognized For Commitment To The Telecom Industry
Paarock Asuman VanPercy, Director General of the National Communications Authority, has been given a special acknowledgment for his commitment to the telecom industry in Ghana. The recognition, in the form of an award, was at the 2nd Mobile World Ghana Telecom Summit. READ MORE
Poor Service Quality: MTN & Expresso Sanctioned
The National Communications Authority monitors and analyzes the performance of mobile operators in the country every month to assess the user experience using the mobile voice service, this is conducted in order to direct improvement in their Quality of Service (QoS). READ MORE
Press Statement: SIM Card Registration
On July 1, 2010, our country embarked on a SIM Card Registration Exercise which required users of mobile telephony services to register their SIM cards. The exercise was to run for a full year from July 1 2010 to June 30 2011 at the end of which any SIM card that remained unregistered would be deactivated. READ MORE
NCA Announces New Interconnection Rate Regime For The Period 2012 – 2014
The National Communications Authority in December of 2011 set a new Interconnect termination rate regime among Telecommunications Operators, to replace the existing regime which was set in 2008 and was due to expire on 31 December 2011. READ MORE
ITU Telecom World 2011
The ITU Telecom World 2011 brought together thousands of delegates from the telecommunications and technology industries to discuss what steps need to be taken to get more of the world connected. The meeting took place in Geneva Palexpo, Switzerland on October 24-27, 2011. READ MORE
Public Announcement: Burkinabe Regulator On Fact-Finding
The National Communications Authority (NCA) continues to attract international admiration and endorsement for the sound spectrum management as well as the efficient implementation of key policies in the telecommunications sector of the country. READ MORE
Public Announcement: NCA Consumer Forum 2011 & Opening of Zonal Offices
The National Communications Authority (NCA) is pleased to announce to all stakeholders of its imminent Consumer Forum 2011, in Tamale for the Northern Sector and in Kumasi for the Middle Sector of the country. READ MORE
NCA Picks Best Telecom Regulator Award
The National Communications Authority was the recipient of WEST AFRICA’S BEST REGULATOR for the year 2011, an international award instituted for excellence in delivery of telecommunications in Africa. NCA picked this year’s African telecom regulation trophy in the regulator category organized by African Telecom People (ATD). READ MORE
5 Telcos Punished - For providing poor services
The five operating telecommunications companies (telcos) in the country have been slapped with a fine totaling GH₵1.2 million by the National Communications Authority (NCA) for providing poor quality services to their clients. READ MORE
Mobile Number Portability Statistics As Of October 2011
NEWS RELEASE – NOVEMBER 4, 2011
MOBILE NUMBER PORTABILITY STATISTICS AS OF OCTOBER 2011
The National Communications Authority (NCA) is pleased to report that as of the end of October, 2011, four months since the commencement of Mobile Number Portability (MNP), a total of 138,458 mobile phone subscribers in Ghana had taken advantage of the MNP system to move from one mobile service provider to another whilst retaining their mobile number. READ MORE
Senegal, Others Learn From NCA
A delegation from the Consumer Association of Senegal has concluded a study tour of the National Communications Authority. The focus of the team’s two-day study was principally on the operations of Ghana’s International Inbound traffic Verification Project (IITV). READ MORE
Public Announcement
The National Communications Authority gives notice that effective 1st October, 2011 all Network Operators, Service Providers and Dealers who are not in good standing with the Authority READ MORE
Press Release: SIM Card Registration
At the expiration of the period for SIM Card Registration on June 30, 2011, the National Communications Authority (NCA) announced a 90-day mop-up period following which a review of progress of the entire exercise will be conducted with a view to bringing it to closure. READ MORE
NCA States Position At Ho Policy Fair
The National Communication Authority (NCA) has taken advantage of a four-day policy fair in the Volta regional capital, Ho to re-brand with its public in the region. The 17th to 20th of August 2011 fair under the theme ‘’Empowering the People as we Build a Better Ghana,’ attracted over 1,300 participants. READ MORE
NCA has a new Deputy Director General and Board Secretary
The National Communications Authority is proud to announce and welcome Mr. Albert Enninful and Mrs. Rahmata Issahaq-Pelpuo as Deputy Director-General and the Board Secretary respectively. They both hold offices in acting capacities pending confirmation of their respective positions by the Public Services Commission. READ MORE
Mobile Number Portability: You Can Move.....NOW!
Mobile Number Portability is now a reality in Ghana. That means you can quit one mobile network and join another, without changing your mobile number at all! READ MORE
Status Of The SIM/Chip Registration Exercise
The National Communications Authority (NCA) has given a grace period of 90 days to persons whose data submitted during the SIM registration exercise faced challenges. READ MORE
Ghanaian Communications Engineer Jailed 5 years For Fraud
A Ghanaian Communications Engineer based in Italy has been slapped with a 5 year jail term by an Accra Court for illegally terminating international calls to Ghana. Hassan Nonni, 50 years was arrested on 13th November, 2010 at Dome in Accra for illegally terminating international calls to Ghana using the SIM cards of Vodafone, Airtel and MTN. READ MORE
New Schedule of Penalties Gazetted
The National Communications Authority has published in the Ghana Gazette
of February 4th, 2011 a new Schedule of Penalties for Mobile Cellular
Operators. This means that the new Schedule of Penalties is what will be
used by the NCA. READ MORE
Ghana Chairs QoS in Africa (18/02/11)
The Regional Group for Africa of the International Telecommunications
Union (ITU) lead study group on Quality of Service, ITU-T Study Group
12 has unanimously elected Mr. Kwame Baah-Acheamfuor, a Senior Manager
at the Regulatory Administration Division of Ghana’s National
Communications Authority (NCA), chairman for a two-year term. READ MORE
WTIS Day 2011
Theme: "Better Life In Rural Communities With ICTs" The World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) was held at the Accra International Conference Centre on May 17, 2011 under the theme "Better life in rural communities with ICTs." The purpose of WTISD is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as ways to bridge the digital divide. READ MORE
NCA Participates In Ghana Policy Fair
The National Communications Authority took advantage of the second Ghana Policy Fair to draw the public closer and afford them the opportunity of understanding the NCA's functions, objectives and policies. This year’s event, organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Information, was held from the 26th to 30th April, 2011 in Accra. READ MORE
Joint Statement By NCA/GBC (17/01/11)
The Governing Boards of the National Communications Authority (NCA)
and the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) held a meeting on 13th
January, 2011 in the Boardroom of NCA. READ MORE
Re: Dakar Declaration (17/12/2010)
The attention of the Ministry of Communications has been drawn to a
statement issued by the West African Telecommunications Conference of
telecom operators held in Dakar on 25th November 2010 concerning
‘government imposed taxes on incoming international traffic’. READ MORE
Progress on the work of the NDBMTC
The National Digital Broadcasting Migration Technical Committee has released a report outlining several policy
recommendations to the Government of Ghana for the smooth transition
from analogue to digital broadcasting by 17th June, 2015. READ MORE
NCA Hosts Ethiopian Fact Finding Team
The four member team led by Mr. Andualem Adugnaw from the Communication & Media Research Department of Ethiopia in a meeting with management of the Authority on May 3, 2012. READ MORE
