MAJOR telecommun-ications operator, Glo Mobile, has decided to pull out of Ghana, an authoritative source close to the company has disclosed.


It was gathered at the weekend that the telecommunications giant had decided to divest its investment in the country and exit Ghana as it faces several challenges from some interests bent on sabotaging the company’s nationwide take-off plan.


A source close to the company disclosed that some of the challenges the company had faced since it was awarded a GSM licence by the National Communications Authority (NCA) included an encroachment on the frequency allocated to it by the NCA, the repeated and organised sabotage of its billboards and the delay in securing approval for the swift deployment of its infrastructure like base stations.


It was gathered that officials of the company were concerned that while they had been working at a frenetic pace to formally roll out the network, some forces had been deliberately working round the clock to cripple its operation and prevent it from rolling out quickly to the detriment of the Ghanaian society.


Derek Okpobi, a senior official of Glo Mobile Ghana, said “the frustrations are getting out of control. We have considered pulling out.”


Another source close to the company said the operator’s management felt that its infrastructure in the country were not getting adequate protection from the law enforcement agencies.

Efforts to get the official reaction of the company to the development proved abortive, but it was gathered that the company would soon serve the government its notice to quit.


The source, which was privy to the outcome of a meeting held by senior management staff of the company on the issues, said the company was displeased with the various acts of vandalism and would have felt relieved if the law enforcement agencies had apprehended the perpetrators and exposed them.


Glo Mobile Ghana recently embarked on a massive deployment of outdoor advertising structures comprising billboards, light boxes, lamppost signs and brand marks (branded lit globes) throughout Accra, as part of the build-up towards the nationwide launch of the company’s operations in Ghana.


However, immediately after the deployment of the outdoor advertising materials which generated a lot of positive remarks, a number of the outdoor structures had been vandalised by unknown persons.


In February, about 15 light boxes mounted from the airport traffic light median to the Opeibea House traffic light, were deliberately destroyed with the flexi materials used on both sides of the unit torn.

One of the Glo brand marks, mounted in Accra was also destroyed.


About two weeks ago, light boxes numbering about 16, from the King Tackie Tawiah overpass to Busy Internet, installed by Glo were also vandalised.


Another major area of concern for Glo, it was learnt, was the ban on erection of mast by the National Environmental Protection Agency.


The development was said to have affected Glo the most, being the only network building a nationwide telecoms company from scratch.


Meanwhile some Ghanaians have reacted to the development.


In a comment posted by a group tagged “glosupportgrp” on myjoyonline.com, the official website of one of Ghana’s most popular radio station, the group said “Glo should know that the majority of Ghanaians are behind them.”

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no comments so far.

yet when glo relocated to ghana from nigeria, people were wailing like the walrus in alice in wonderland and raining curses on the place [naija]


abi which company was being discussed that time.

Glo never really MOVED to Ghana. It simply entered the Ghanian market, and I believe this happened sometime late last year. Not exactly sure why it would pull out less than a year later.

when did Glo move to ghana?
The topic is kind of deceiving from the post they have not pulled out ( I am not saying it is the posters fault). I guess we have to wait and see if they would really leave, or it is all talk.

I think glo should not move it. It would be rewarding for Adenuga later.

For God sake the entire Ghana is the size of may be Lagos and Ibadan all together. For anyone to think Adenuga will move Glo to Ghana is ridiculous and senseless at the same time.
The strongest Glo market is still in Nigeria and will be so for a very long time.
The future plan of Glo is not to move to Ghana or take over Ghana, but to first take over west Africa and then gradually introduce their service to other parts of Africa.

What is currently going on is bad-belly and lack of business intelligence/ stamina. It absolutely has nothing to do with the people in Ghana. What we are experiencing is directly designed by few people/ businesses in Ghana that hate anything Nigeria. They clearly can not match what Nigerians bring to the table on a daily bases. Therefore, they are ready to continue to wet the charcoal before another Nigerian company starts the fire.

We must all take this situation very seriously, if Glo is experiencing this unnecessary circumstance, it could also happen to any of us. Nigerians are smart and usually take simple things to the next level. We must not also allow this to negatively affect our relationship with Ghana; I was in Ghana in Feb and I must confess that I had a great time and those folks look up to us. I still believe that majority of them wants Glo to start operating in their country immediately.
and i have a very strong confidence that Glo will never never pull out of Ghana; they have spent too much money and time to get to this point. I see this news as a strategic move to send message to the great people of Ghana to put their folks in check or else Glo will move on and will never look back.

Let's see what happens.