Ghana is readying to kick-start construction of a fibre-optic project that aims to provide sufficient broadband capacities for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the country.
The country's minister of communications, Haruna Iddrisu, is expected to lead a government delegation for the groundbreaking ceremony of the multi-million dollar project on Friday, September 28, 2012, according to the Chairman of the Council of State, Professor Kofi Awoonor.
He said the fibre-optic cables would be laid from Ho in the Volta Region to Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana, under what has been tagged as the 'Eastern Corridor Fibre-Optic Project'.
“Under the e-government platform project, several IT applications are being introduced for e-government, health, commerce, education and agriculture, among many others," said Awoonor.
He said with the seven terabytes capacity provided by the four submarine fibre-optic cables serving Ghana, through MainOne Cable, West Africa Submarine Cable System (WACS), Glo-1 and SAT-3, the coming years could see a quantum leap in the usage of the internet in Ghana and the development of its ICT industry.
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