Glo storms Ghana’s telecom market with juicy offers

Beginning from Monday, April 30, 2012, all 1.5 million Ghanaians who successfully reserved 023-3 and 023-5 Glo numbers can go to any of the 25 GloWorld Shops across the country and activate them and start making calls.

This is possible because the Glo Ghana network has now been activated and the first official call was made on the network between National Media Commission (NMC) Chairman, Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere, and Globacom Executive Director for Human Resource, Adewale Sangowawa at a press launch of Glo Ghana’s commercial services.

But due to SIM registration procedures, new Glo customers might have to wait for a while for their registration particulars to be verified and validated before their Glo SIM could be activated.

Glo’s launch on Sunday brought a three-year long wait to an end, and it came only after the National Communication Authority (NCA) had fined Glo $200,000 for failure to launch and cover at least six regions in the country within two years of its license, which was in 2008.

But Glo Ghana Chief Operating Officer (COO), George Andah told journalists the long wait was not a waste because for every extra day Ghanaians waited, Glo was planning and working on relevant packages and offerings that would excite Ghanaians.

Evidence of that was the company starting with 85% coverage of Ghana, providing services in 974 cities and 10,000 villages, and also starting with some of the juiciest offers the industry could offer.

For starters, all new customers on Glo would get 20Gp credit free everyday for the first 100 days they joined Glo, and George Andah said that was about three minutes of call free on Glo for 100 days just for being a customer.

He said beside the free 20Gp every day, new customers also would get up to 100% bonus on every recharge, five hours free night calls for spending just 10Gp in a whole day, one minute bonus to call any network for every three minutes of calls received, and one special phone number (Sweet Number) that a customer could call for only 2Gp per minute.

“Glo SIM cost only GHS1 and a call per minute on Glo is 8Gp but with 100% bonus on every recharge the effective call tariff is way less than 8Gp,” Andah said.

The company also assured Ghanaians of the most competitive international call rates, not much different from domestic call tariffs.

There were other offers that enabled customers to have the latest news, sports, entertainment and weather updates on their Glo 128kb SIM cards, whiles a service called Sharp-Sharp also allowed electronic tranfer of credit on the go.

George Andah said those offers came on the back of Glo’s superior $750 million-worth world class network comprising 1,400 BTS, the popular 2.5 terabit/sec Glo One submarine cable, with some 2,900km terrestrial spread into Ghana, which also made 80% of Glo BTSs 3G (UMTS.

He noted that 1.5 million people had already reserved their special Glo numbers on a network that was ready to accommodate at least 10 million customers for starters, “which means one out of every two Ghanaian can be on the Glo network without it getting congested.”

The Glo Ghana boss said with the superior infrastructure Glo had installed, it could assure Ghanaians of the fastest upload and download internet speeds in country, and the best quality voice calls from everywhere on the soils of Ghana.

“We are starting with 1,400 BTS which makes us the second biggest network in the country in terms of coverage but the rate at which we are going, we would reach 2,300 BTS by the close of 2012 and that will make Glo the largest network in terms of coverage in Ghana,” he said.

He said the company had already seated 500 Customer Care staff at the 25 GloWorld Stores, who are ready to receive over 200,000 calls in a day serving customers’ various needs.

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Sometimes i weep for my country Naija

Glo’s launch on Sunday brought a three-year long wait to an end, and it came only after the National Communication Authority (NCA) had fined Glo $200,000 for failure to launch and cover at least six regions in the country within two years of its license, which was in 2008.

Look at what Ghana's NCC equivalent is doing while ours are just lining their pockets with bribes and free credit. Whenever any network launches a new product in Nigeria, its usually limited to Lagos, Abuja and Port-Hacourt. God bless Airtel Nigeria for launching their 3.75G network across Nigeria. That was a first in the history in Nigeria. We are yet to feel MTN, Glo and Etisalat 3G in some states of the federation.

George Andah said those offers came on the back of Glo’s superior $750 million-worth world class network comprising 1,400 BTS, the popular 2.5 terabit/sec Glo One submarine cable, with some 2,900km terrestrial spread into Ghana, which also made 80% of Glo BTSs 3G (UMTS.

Just look at that statement, so 80% of the Glo Network in Ghana is 3G !!! Look, no matter how hard things are to achieve in Nigeria, you cannot rule out the propensity of Telecom operators to abuse the lackadaisical attitude of Nigerian regulators to their advantage. Ghana now should be among the second or third country with the fastest internet betwen Egypt and South Africa. It shall be well with us sha !! We are gonna get their soon also.