Three Fibre Cuts in One Day Knock Out Mobile Service in Northern Ghana
Three fibre cuts on one day degraded or knocked out 1,215 mobile sites across northern Ghana and the Oti Region. Repairs were expected to begin within hours. The post Three Fibre Cuts in One Day Knock Out Mobile Service in Northern Ghana appeared first on The Rio Times .
On 26 September, three fibre cuts across Ghana knocked out 1,215 mobile sites, disrupting calls, mobile data and mobile money services in northern regions and the Oti Region. Communications Minister Samuel Nartey George announced the outage. The damaged routes belonged to two private operators and a state agency. The first cut hit the Kintampo–Buipe route operated by MTN Ghana at 04:19 GMT, the second the Wakawaka–Bamboi route operated by Telecel Ghana at 11:36 GMT, and the third the Hohoe–Jasikan route operated by NITA at 11:25 GMT.
MTN is Ghana's largest mobile operator, while Telecel Ghana is the former Vodafone Ghana. All three cuts affected both 2G and 3G sites, as well as 4G sites, with 694 2G and 3G sites and 521 4G sites experiencing service denial or significant degradation. The minister noted that mobile money, which many Ghanaians rely on daily, depends on the same towers.
MTN Ghana, Telecel Ghana and NITA sent teams to investigate the causes and restore service. The National Communications Authority said teams were working on repairs with no restoration timeline. Fibre cuts have been a recurring issue in Ghana, with 8,578 cuts recorded in 2026, costing operators over US$20 million. The majority of cuts this year were caused by road construction (49%), illegal gold mining (25%), and developers and other activities (26%).
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