The high price of political phones

Political controversy has dogged Ghana Telecom since the telecom sector was deregulated in the mid-1990s under the National Democratic Congress government. Its performance under the management of Telkom Malaysia led to the cancelling of the contract by the New Patriotic Party in 2002. A protracted court case was eventually settled under international arbitration.

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