Vodafone Ghana rebrands to Telecel | The Future of Ghana Telecommunications | Medase Vodafone! (PodBites Ep. 42)

Vodafone has finalised the sale of its majority shares to Telecel Group (70%), with the Ghanaian Government holding 30% of the shares. This week, they have announced the rebranding of Vodafone Ghana to Telecel, where they had the rights to the Vodafone Ghana name up to February 2024.  Margherita Della Valle, Chief Executive of Vodafone, said: “The sale of Vodafone Ghana to Telecel Group is a further step in simplifying Vodafone’s African portfolio. Since entering the market in 2008, Vodafone has helped to develop Ghana’s critical network infrastructure supporting customers, businesses and communities.” The Vodacom Group (The subsidiary that manages Vodafone's African Portfolio), also takes a step back from other countries including Egypt and Kenya.  Vodafone Ghana were not able to compete effectively with MTN, which has the largest marketshare of telecommunications in Ghana and arguably across Africa. MTN own over two-thirds of the market share (66%) in Ghana, whilst Vodafone owned less than one-third (17%).  Vodafone made a significant contribution to the African market by launching M-Pesa in 2007, Africa's most successful mobile money service, providing access to financial services for millions of people Let us know your thoughts! Join the conversation on our Social Media handles @thesoundofaccra Social Media  YouTube: https://youtube.com/thesoundofaccrapodcast Website: https://thesoundofaccra.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesoundofaccra/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesoundofaccra Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesoundofaccra Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/thesoundofaccra Linkedin: https://gh.linkedin.com/company/the-sound-of-accra Support the show https://www.paypal.me/gofundad Listen to more episodes below https://thesoundofaccrapodcast.podbean.com/ All other links https://linktr.ee/thesoundofaccrapod About The Sound of Accra Podcast Our mission is always the same, to promote Global Ghanaian excellence. And always to bring you closer to Accra, whenever you are, with powerful stories that make you want to take action in your career, business or personal life.  For 4 years, we have been championing Ghanaian business, entrepreneurship and Creators through podcasting.  To this date, we've achieved 10s of thousands of audio downloads worldwide and published well over a 150 episodes. We are trying to grow our global audience and reach more people and become an established brand in a go to resource for learning about native and diasporan Ghanaian Creators, entrepreneurs and founders worldwide.  I'm kindly asking for your help. Yes, all of you. To leave a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, the most popular podcast platforms that you all listen to us on. If you have feedback for our shows or would like to share what you would like to hear from The Sound of Accra Podcast, please email [email protected]