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16.05.2008« [telecommunications — телекоммуникация — telekommunikation]
ghana — fontv fun for ghana
Black Star Television and mobile operator GT-OneTouch, owned by national PTO Ghana Telecom, have launched what they claim is Africa’s first mobile phone-enabled television content viewing service, FonTv. The service will use Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) technology developed in South Korea, to deliver TV broadcasts to T-DMB enabled handsets, laptops and other digital receivers, Black Star said. Mr D H Kim, Managing Director of Black Star TV, said the pair’s Ghanaian collaboration would help GT-OneTouch and Black Star penetrate the domestic market, with a ‘valuable’ value added service. The cellco’s chairman, Mr Yoofi Grant, said the company would provide two months’ free subscription for the first 1,000 people to purchase the product.
Source: TeleGeography's CommsUpdate
ghana telecom
Ghana Telecom is the national telecom company of Ghana. In 2006 it had around 400.000 customert for fixed and mobile telephony and internet services. On 20 February 1997 was privatised through the sale of 30 % of shares to Telekom Malaysia.
onetouch
Onetouch is a fully-owned subsidiary of Ghana Telecom and operates the GSM mobile service with the brand name ‘Onetouch’. The Onetouch network has grown remarkably from a subscriber base of 140 at the beginning of 2005 to over 1.4 million as at the end of quarter 1 2008. Onetouch provides both prepaid and postpaid services. The prepaid service is the most predominant sector with over 97% of the total number of subscribers in Ghana.
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