Tigo Ghana is injecting 24 million dollars into 140 new cell sites across the country. The project is aimed at improving network coverage and data connectivity throughout the country.
Tigo Ghana was recording an average of 51 fibre cuts per month as at November last 2014.
This was blamed on construction works, illegal mining and private development activities resulting in frequent network interruptions and low customer experience.
The 24 million dollar project is one of several other investments Tigo Ghana is embarking upon to improve network resilience.
70 percent of the capital would be invested in new cell sites in Accra alone.
The new sites, according to the Chief Technical and Information Officer of Tigo, Ron Reddick, has become necessary due to huge traffic on the network.
“When you have a good cell site, a lot of things work right for the customer. Everything from quick call, the set up and dialing, good data experience, fast downloads, YouTube, whatssap and videos show up really quick and all that”.
Battery thefts at cell sites has also been a major concern for the company.
Tigo Ghana has so far recorded 900 stolen batteries from cell sites running into close to one million dollars in losses.
“They are actually quite intelligent with how they do it such that it doesn’t set off the alarms and we won’t know that they are missing until the site goes down. I don’t think we will ever pass on such cost onto the consumer although it increases our operational cost a little bit”.
The first phase of the project is scheduled to end by September this year.
150 more cell sites would be added in the second phase by the end of the first quarter of 2016.
