Accra (Greater Accra) 15 Jan. '99

Mobitel Ghana Limited, Ghana's first cellular phone network had over 22,000 new subscribers in 1998. Mr. Phil Danglinson, General Manager of the company, said this at the 1998 Mobitel Grand Prize awards night in Accra yesterday. He said the company has started the installation of a country-wide network with the commissioning of a new satellite in Kumasi and a smaller project in Tamale. The Grand Prize of a brand new Peugeot 406 worth 58 million cedis was won by Mr. Ransford Kusi, a Kumasi spare parts dealer. He advised Ghanaians to patronise Mobitel and described the network as " very good". Mr Kusi said he was surprised when information reached him that he had won the Grand Prize.