ADAWSO GETS COMMUNITY PHONE BOOTHS (PAGE 14)

VODAFONE-Ghana Telecom has provided the people of Adawso in the Akuapem North District of the Eastern Region with two community phone booths.
The move is to offer the people easy access to reliable, efficient and affordable communication to link up to others elsewhere.
The facility, christened Vodafone-link (V-link) phones, forms part of the company’s commitment to enhance access to communications for all rural and peri-urban communities in the country.
Besides the installation of the facility, the company also distributed a number of starter packs to the people as part of measures to ease the difficulty in the acquisition of such items.
The initiative, the first to be inaugurated in the Eastern Region, will be extended to other communities and senior high schools (SHSs) in the area.
In an address at the inaugural ceremony, the Head of Corporate Communications and Customer Care at GT, Major Albert Don Chebe (retd), said V-link phones are an innovation representing the company’s commitment to provide easy access to communications for all communities, irrespective of their geographical location or economic status.
He said similar projects had already been inaugurated in others regions, namely, Upper East, Northern and Brong Ahafo, adding, “By the end of the second week of March this year, V-link will be available in all the 10 regions of the country.”
He indicated that the initiative had also targeted SHSs to ensure easy communication between parents and their children, pointing out that his outfit had installed community V-link phones in several schools throughout the country.
For his part, the Eastern Regional Manager of Vodafone-GT, Mr Nii A. Fleischer-Brook, said since the management of Vodafone took over GT, Adawso had benefited from Onetouch cell site (signal) and phone booths.
Besides such benefits to the communities, he said 57 phone booths, christened S-links, had been donated to 14 SHSs in the Eastern Region, while 12,249 starter packs had also been distributed to the students, teaching and non-teaching staff of the beneficiary schools.
Mr Fleischer-Brook appealed to the people to take good care of the booths to ensure that they served the purpose for which they were installed in the area.
The Amankrado of Adawso, Nana Awuah Fugwau, who received the items, thanked the company for the support, which he said would enhance communication in the area.