Daniel Kofi Ansah Akuffo, an Internet Service Providers board member, is calling for the discovery of inland cables in Ghana to reduce potential telecommunications disruptions.
This recommendation is made in light of persistent disruptions impacting various submarine fibre optic cables, which serve as critical conduits for internet connectivity in the country.
Mr. Ansah Akuffo described the gradual outages as chaotic and advocated for improvements to Ghana’s telecommunications infrastructure to mitigate the impact of future blackouts.
“It was a very hectic day for all of us. Ghana is supplied by five submarine cables and one is currently totally off and just about yesterday, some other three also went off. These cables ran from South Africa to Europe and what this means is that we should be looking at our telecommunication infrastructure.”
He stated that internet service providers are currently attempting to reroute their connections to deliver service from Nigeria.
“Diversification is very important and what I think we should do is look at in-land cables in Ghana and Africa as a whole. We should look at interconnectivity. One cable has about four set of fibre and so when there is a cut in one end, it becomes a problem, so what we are doing now is to use a cable from Nigeria to complement the challenges.”
