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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>The National Communications Authority (NCA) has expanded its satellite licensing regime to include recent broadband satellite services, according to the Director General at NCA, Dr. Joe Anokye.<\/b><\/p>\n

At a media briefing on Sunday, March 24, to update the country on the recent internet disruptions occasioned by the undersea cable cuts, Mr. Anokye indicated that the Authority \u201chas been forward-looking\u201d over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not have a framework until recently, the hardworking engineering team…put together one of the very important frameworks so we are now ready; the board has approved the framework, so NCA is ready to entertain applications from satellite broadband,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

As a forward-looking entity, Mr. Anokye said, \u201cThe NCA has augmented our existing satellite licensing portfolio to include recent broadband satellite services to provide alternative connectivity options for domestic and enterprise users.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further noted that \u201ccurrently, the NCA has the v-SAT satellite services being around for many years,\u201d serving several financial institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil 2020 or so, the Electoral Commission (EC) exclusively relied on the v-SAT to connect all the district offices so this is a service that is still available,\u201d said Dr. Joe Anokye.<\/p>\n

He also noted that the bandwidth involved, as far as the v-SAT satellite is concerned, is much smaller, forcing institutions to migrate to other broadband satellite services.<\/p>\n

Background<\/b><\/p>\n

All mobile and fixed data services went down nationwide in the early hours of Thursday, March 14.<\/p>\n

The internet disruption brought several activities to a halt, with mobile network operators (MNOs) running on minimal data capacity.<\/p>\n

According to the National Communications Authority, Ghana lost about 1,596.6 Gbps of data capacity owing to multiple undersea cable cuts.<\/p>\n

Read also:<\/b> Undersea cable cut: Telcos are bringing other capacities into the country \u2013 Ken Ashigbey<\/p>\n

However, MTN Ghana announced on March 18 that it had secured additional network capacity from its international partners, resulting in an improvement in data connectivity.<\/p>\n

MTN Ghana promised its clients that it was examining all possibilities to alleviate the data difficulties they were facing.<\/p>\n

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