{"id":182409,"date":"2024-10-12T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T16:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-launches-ecowas-free-roaming-initiative-with-togo-and-benin\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T18:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T16:22:27","slug":"west-africa-ghana-launches-ecowas-free-roaming-initiative-with-togo-and-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-launches-ecowas-free-roaming-initiative-with-togo-and-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Ghana Launches Ecowas Free Roaming Initiative With Togo and Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ghana, Togo, and Benin launch ECOWAS Free Roaming initiative, eliminating international roaming charges.<\/li>\n<li>Agreement between Ghana&#8217;s NCA and Benin&#8217;s ARCEP took effect in July after formalization in April 2024.<\/li>\n<li>MNOs from the three countries support the initiative, offering cost savings to citizens during the initial 30-day period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Ghana&#8217;s Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has officially launched the ECOWAS Free Roaming initiative with Togo and Benin, allowing citizens of these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410120173.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Ghana, Togo, and Benin launch ECOWAS Free Roaming initiative, eliminating international roaming charges. Agreement between Ghana&#8217;s NCA and Benin&#8217;s ARCEP took effect in July after formalization in April 2024. MNOs from the three countries support the initiative, offering cost savings to citizens during the initial 30-day period. Ghana&#8217;s Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4737,2557,6544,4508,4509,9890,5957,257,15744,254,9787,4375],"class_list":["post-182409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benin","tag-ecowas","tag-free","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-initiative","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-roaming","tag-south-africa-today","tag-togo","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}