Kufuor fails to act

The Weekly Insight says the Kufuor administration has failed to act to recover billions of cedis owed to the National Communications Authority (NCA) and Ghana Telecom by Mobitel.

Mobitel owes Ghana Telecom alone about ?1.3 billion in unpaid fees and the NCA is yet to recover unpaid fees for the use of frequencies allocated to Mobitel.

An ultimatum fired to Mobitel by the NCA to pay up or pack up by the end of May has largely been ignored.

Mobitel has not paid any tax since its inception because it claims it does not make profit. Recently, the company also brought GSM equipment into the country without the approval of NCA.

The equipment, which was brought-in on behalf of Mobitel by Ericsson is currently being installed.