Afia Ohemeng
The Ghanaian Twittersphere is buzzing again about services from local telecommunications service providers.
The hashtag #ReduceInternetPrices has almost 7,000 tweets and is the number one trending topic. Ghanaian telcos are once again at loggerheads with their subscribers. The subscribers are calling for a reduction of their data charges.
The subscribers of the three major telcos MTN, Vodafone, and AirtelTigo are receiving a substantial bashing on the internet. According to their users, the rate at which their data bundles disappear is very alarming.
This comes some few months after telcos in the country were required to provide services which did not expire.
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Former President John Dramani Mahama also offered some advice to the current government in regards to the issue.
President @JDMahama has given the government a clue on how to do it. #ReduceInternetPrices pic.twitter.com/Cru0Anfyhr
— Yayra Koku (@YayraKoku) April 13, 2020
Below are some comments of the distraught users:
Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya have some of the highest internet charges in the whole world. What kind of nonsense too is that?#ReduceInternetPrices
— Loulou Vibes🇬🇭🎶 (@_Louisthegreat_) April 13, 2020
This is how much telecos charge in the UK PM. Telecos dey here dey fraud we with 4G arhh edey run like 2G sanso dey charge we stupidly. How can I buy 5gb midnight bundle and up till now ano use 100mb mpo for insyd #ReduceInternetPrices and increase the speed pic.twitter.com/dDcgJJ47KF
— Risto (@RistoTrades) April 13, 2020
I can't get over the fact that a top 2 telco CEO in Ghana was actually on radio saying that they are maintaining prices because reducing data cost would cause a surge in usage and thereby slow Internet speed. Imagine????
Thats balderdash.#ReduceInternetPrices pic.twitter.com/UU0lNCu5om
— Nat G. Tetteh🇬🇭 (@NatTettehGhana) April 13, 2020
These mtn people wait till it’s 12 midnight then they slow down the internet. If They don’t want us to do midnight bundle they should just tell us coss … #ReduceInternetPrices https://t.co/y25FYKBZ6u
— PRINCE OSEI🎈⚡️ (@_princeosei_) April 13, 2020
