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Sometimes, it feels as though having been born a Ghanaian, especially living in Ghana then-after is a grand curse from the gods.
Jimmy Uys was wrong when he said “ The Gods Must Be Crazy,” he meant, Ghana’s National Communication Authority (NCA) Must Be Utterly Crazy—for wasting their time to even contemplate on such an absurdity and considering cutting Ghana from the pillars of global communication and development.
As it stands, the NCA says it has received a proposal from MTN and other telecommunication companies in Ghana, saying the various Over-the-Top applications which make it necessary for users to message freely and make free calls are causing them a lot of business loss—and as such they want WhatsApp, Skype, Viber and others banned.
It’s the NCA’s contemplation or announcement that it is even considering this obvious absurdity that makes them crazy—such a proposal should have been tossed out of the window, the minute it was presented.
Yet, the NCA says, it is considering it—somewhat an indication that the proposal has some sort of merit in their prima facie estimation.
What about the NCA considering a proposal to fine MTN and the other networks which continue to delivery appalling and straight from hell services to the millions of Ghanaians?
How about the NCA ensuring that these telecommunication companies provide customers with at least a reasonable services and step out their utterly disgusting customer service? That doesn’t seem to be part of the NCA’s priorities since the status quo remains—but it has assumed the mandate, and it seems to have the time and resource to waste on considering a ban of free calls and messaging apps.
This is the most useless and pathetic development I’ve heard coming out of Ghana in a long—and trust me, a lot of hogwash are cooked in Ghana every single minute.
Perhaps, these telecommunication companies have forgotten that, they sell data to Ghanaian customers at exorbitant rates and dish out to them excessively slow internet connections.
Beyond that, whatever legal a customer does with a purchased internet data should not be the problem of the seller—especially when we live in a high connectivity globe with increasing technological developments aimed at granting users cheaper and free access to communication. Would the situation have been the same if the customers were in large percentages running off their data quickly because of an certain apps being used, making these telecos more profits?
I guess the NCA will soon contemplate on banning Facebook and others too—because even Facebook has a free messaging and call add-ons which are increasingly becoming popular.
Ghana’s National Communication Authority Must Be Crazy | The NCA is Contemplating On Banning WhatsApp, Viber & Others Because MTN and Others Say They Are Losing Money
