Looks like the Honourable Ghanaian Minister should have just waited one more day before making his pronunciation. And this I believe will certainly not be an experience of climbing a tree and expecting to catch fish at the top. Mr Chairman, if we want to remember Kwame Nkrumah one of the ways will be to make seamless roaming work for Africa. We need to fix the phenomenon and negativity around sim boxing and ultimately try and make one network which is affordable seamless roaming for Africa a dream come true. We’ll have some learnings to share in order to leverage on the opportunities of positive alternative calling mechanisms. Somebody is terminating international traffic into your country, bypassing your gateway and it means that you are going to lose revenues. Mr Chairman, this shows that there is significant amount of sim boxing. On a lighter note, Mr Chairman the roaming charges here have not been too friendly and every international call I have received on my phone has registered as a local number. In the second minute he seemed as if he was wrapping up and said the following: He is an entertaining speaker and quite articulate. I was happy they altered the programme to give the Ghanaian Deputy Minister a few minutes to speak.

He didn’t speak much, he was not really in the programme but I guess it was a respectful gesture to give him the podium since he was there (the only such senior member of government except the Zimbabwean Deputy Minister of ICT who was Guest of Honour). When I was in Victoria Falls on Tuesday, I heard the Ghanaian Deputy Minister of Communications speak.

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