ZAIN to launch services in Ghana(Page 38) July 10, 2008

Zain to launch services in Ghana
Story: Michael Donkor
ZAIN Communication Ghana, a mobile telecommunication operator, is to launch its services in the country by the end of the year.
Currently, the company is on a massive infrastructural development that is expected to be completed soon.
The Chief Executive of Zain in charge of Africa, Mr Chris Gabriel, said at a news conference in Accra last Tuesday that the company would launch a world-class network offering unparalleled modern communications services across the country and assured Ghanaians of quality service.
Mr Gabriel said Zain would roll out with a microwave network and later build a fibre network.
He said they would design services that would meet the demand and expectations of Ghanaians.
Mr Gabriel said Zain, through its African subsidiary, Celtel, had pioneered the development of innovative services such as the world’s first borderless network, which covered close to half of the African population.
He said Zain won the best Telecom Operator in Africa award at the prestigious Business in Africa Awards held in London recently.
Mr Gabriel said Zain currently operated in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan and Iraq and in Lebanon as “mtc touch”.
He said Zain operated as Celtel in Burkina Faso, Chad, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Mr Gabriel said the company had over 15,000 employees providing a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to over 45.7 million individuals and business customers.
He said Zain considered itself defined by a commitment to excellence in providing world-class mobile and data services, as well as an ethos of corporate social responsibility in supporting communities, offering employment and creating business opportunities where it operated.
He said it was important to Zain that its economic, social and cultural projects had a positive impact on the people of all the countries in which they operated.