The Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu has indicated to parliament that government is rolling out a programme to license additional satellite internet service providers to deal with the disruption to internet services in the country.
She indicated that global satellite internet service provider Starlink is in the process of being licensed to operate in Ghana.
Briefing Parliament on the issue of internet disruptions, Ursula Owusu said it will take a minimum of five weeks for the damaged undersea cables causing the outage to be fixed.
“Starlink is in the process of being licensed. And other operators are being encouraged to land in Ghana. We must also invest in operationalizing RASCOM (Regional African Satellite Company) instead of each country going at it alone.
“All network operators must arrange and implement alternate routes to restore phone services as they’re currently doing,” Communications and Digitalisation Minister, Ursula Owusu disclosed to MPs in Parliament on Monday.