Glo launches ‘Reserve your number” campaign

Page 24: January 24, 2012 Story: Albert K. Salia GLO Mobile Ghana Limited yesterday launched its “Reserve Your Number” campaign as part of activities to introduce its mobile network onto the local market. Although it is yet to start commercial operations, Glo Mobile says it has already deployed the latest broadband technology, next generation networks, more than 1,600 state-of-the-art base transceiver stations (BTS), four ultra-modern switches with capacity for up to 10 million lines with congestion-free service, 18 base switch centres, 800 3G Node Bs, among others, throughout the country to take off smoothly. The facilities will be complemented by the high-capacity Glo 1 submarine fibre-optic cable that connects Ghana directly to Europe, with an extension to the USA, and a 2,900-kilometre-long network of terrestrial fibre optic ring within Ghana. The Chief Operating Officer of Glo Mobile, Mr George Andah, addressing the press launch of the “Reserve Your Number” campaign, said, “With such a formidable foundation, we wish to assure the people of Ghana about the quality and reliability of our network.” On the question of when Glo would start commercial operations, he said the company would begin its operations soon, adding, “It could be today, tomorrow or next week.” He said the launch of commercial operations would be dramatic and take Ghanaians by storm. On the “Reserve your number” campaign, he said Ghanaians could from today reserve their preferred numbers beginning with 0233 on the Glo network by sending an SMS from any existing network to 0230010100. “The reservations will be limited to only one million requests and shall be conducted on a first-request-first-served basis. In accordance with National Communications Authority (NCA) guidelines on number registration, no single individual subscriber shall be permitted to reserve more than five Glo Mobile numbers and the numbers will be activated upon the commencement of commercial operations,” he added.