Broadband chamber to scrutinize five-year policy

Ghana’s five-year broadband policy is now considered for scrutiny by the country’s Broadband Communications Chamber (BBCC).

This move follows what the chamber regards as the failure of the five-year Broadband Policy to make any progressive impact on the socio-economic future well-being of the Ghanaian populace.

Addressing a media conference on the issue – BBCC Chief Executive Officer of the Elorm Gustav Tamakloe, said “the Chamber believes that Ghana’s current 2012 Broadband Policy and Implementation Strategy has lost the fundamentals in turbo-charging our socio-economic future. It has lost the ability to meet national Broadband needs, and has not been able to deliver fast and affordable Broadband to Ghana”.

Citing some basis for the proposed policy scrutiny, he pointed out that last year – 2016, the UN Broadband Commission in a report issued a challenge to policymakers, the private sector as well as other stakeholders to make deployment of Broadband infrastructure a top priority in their strategies for accelerating global development and progress toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

The Broadband Chamber boss decried the country’s slow pace in maximizing the opportunities of the hi-tech broadband capacities now available to literally every nation.

 “Sadly, Ghana is losing out. Ghana is being left behind. With approximately 9.9 million users, representing 34.7% of an about-29 million population, we can either choose to continue doing nothing or we can seize the Broadband opportunity as a catalyst for Ghana’s sustainable socio-economic development,” he said.