[2020]DLHC10110 • January 9, 2020 • High Court
GHANA TELECOM CO. LIMITED vs. INTERNET GHANA CO. LIMITED AND INTERNET GHANA CO. LIMITED vs. GHANA TELECOM CO. LIMITED
1.0 Background 1.1 Technology presently controls the world, dictating the pace and space of means and mode of delivery of all kinds of services, including telecommunication (telecom) services. In Ghana, barely two decades ago, provision of multimedia internet services to homes, offices and educational institutions was largely by the use of and reliance on Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology; one that relies mainly on existing Ghana Telecom (GT) subscriber telephone copper line infrastructure for simultaneous delivery of telephone and internet services. With the advent and predominant reliance presently of wireless technology based largely on and facilitated by extensive network of fixed antennae on telecom base stations that relay information and data through radio-frequency radiation, ADSL technology had virtually been dust binned. 1.2 This suit arises from, indeed steeped within the era of ADSL technology, which I reiterate was structurally operational on the us...