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Vodafone Ghana
Vodafone Ghana, formerly Ghana Telecom, is the national telecommunications company of Ghana. Vodafone Ghana was fully rebranded from "Vodafone" to "Telecel" in February, 2024 and now known as Telecel Ghana.
As of January 2020, it had around 9.3 million mobile voice subscribers, representing 13.81% of the Ghanaian market shares. The Ghana Satellite Earth Station has been operated by Vodafone Ghana since it took over as the majority shareholder in 2008.
Patricia Obo-Nai was appointed as the first Ghanaian female CEO of Vodafone Ghana. They were certified by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer in Africa for the third consecutive year in January 2021.
On 3 July 2008 it was announced that Vodafone had agreed to acquire 70% of Ghana Telecom from the Ghanaian government at a cost of US$900 million and a total enterprise value of approximately US$1.3 billion.
After the transaction closed, Vodafone had a 70% stake in the company, while the Ghanaian government retained a 30% stake. The acquisition was consummated on 17 August 2008.
The sale was supported by president John Agyekum Kufuor, but strongly opposed by the opposition party, which would win the presidential elections a few months later. The new president John Atta Mills, head of the National Democratic Congress party (NDC) also launched an investigation into the deal after being elected president a claiming that the government "did not get value for money".
Despite these claims, a few months later Vodafone would write down the value of its stake in Ghana Telecom by £250m as the economic climate worsened, damaging the business's prospects.
On 15 April 2009, Ghana Telecom, along with its mobile subsidiary OneTouch, was rebranded as Vodafone Ghana.
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Vodafone Ghana
Vodafone Ghana, formerly Ghana Telecom, is the national telecommunications company of Ghana. Vodafone Ghana was fully rebranded from "Vodafone" to "Telecel" in February, 2024 and now known as Telecel Ghana.
As of January 2020, it had around 9.3 million mobile voice subscribers, representing 13.81% of the Ghanaian market shares. The Ghana Satellite Earth Station has been operated by Vodafone Ghana since it took over as the majority shareholder in 2008.
Patricia Obo-Nai was appointed as the first Ghanaian female CEO of Vodafone Ghana. They were certified by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer in Africa for the third consecutive year in January 2021.
On 3 July 2008 it was announced that Vodafone had agreed to acquire 70% of Ghana Telecom from the Ghanaian government at a cost of US$900 million and a total enterprise value of approximately US$1.3 billion.
After the transaction closed, Vodafone had a 70% stake in the company, while the Ghanaian government retained a 30% stake. The acquisition was consummated on 17 August 2008.
The sale was supported by president John Agyekum Kufuor, but strongly opposed by the opposition party, which would win the presidential elections a few months later. The new president John Atta Mills, head of the National Democratic Congress party (NDC) also launched an investigation into the deal after being elected president a claiming that the government "did not get value for money".
Despite these claims, a few months later Vodafone would write down the value of its stake in Ghana Telecom by £250m as the economic climate worsened, damaging the business's prospects.
On 15 April 2009, Ghana Telecom, along with its mobile subsidiary OneTouch, was rebranded as Vodafone Ghana.
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