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Ghana says it will officially commission the completion of work on the fibre optic network connecting the eastern corridor linking Ho in the Volta region and Bawku in the Northern Region of the country by the end of December. According to Biztechafrica, all the necessary checks and testing have been carried out by the project contractors on the network. The news portal says the government has initiated moves to award the western corridor contract come the first quarter of 2015.

The Deputy Minister of Communication, Edward Ato Sarpong, told Biztechafrica that he believes the completion of a national fibre network in Ghana will present opportunities for the country's entrepreneurs to use it to improve not only their lives but also those of their communities.

The nationwide e-Government infrastructure for Ghana, which is being carried out by Huawei, will extend the national backbone infrastructure to every district in the country and provide a national data centre and a secondary data centre facility for disaster recovery. Ultimately, it will connect all public institutions, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Metropolitan and Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to a single shared communications and computing infrastructure to facilitate effective delivery of government services to the public, businesses and others.

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Quelle/Source: telecompaper, 14.11.2014

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