The National Communications Authority of Ghana is pleased to announce that the group headed by Porting Access bv of the Netherlands (commonly known as PortingXS) along with their local partner, CIS Ghana Limited, has been named the preferred bidder to provide the central equipment and services necessary to implement Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Ghana.

Bids for the centralized equipment and service were received from nine companies and were evaluated in a transparent manner by a team consisting of NCA and all six mobile network licencees. The Authority is grateful to those bidders who participated in the process, as well as to the mobile network licencees for their diligent efforts.

Having passed this milestone, the implementation process is on track to make MNP available to all Ghanaian mobile service customers by 1st July, 2011.
 

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