In a bid to meet the market demand of Apple products, Apple has opened a retail store in Accra, Ghana, making available its world-class products, services, and solutions to local customers and clients.
iShop is located at the Accra Mall and offers the entire product line of Apple, including iPods, MacBooks and iMacs. The iShop also provides user-training for certain Apple products.
Fatogoma Silue, Chief Executive Officer of Apple iShop, noted that Africa would benefit from Apple, the most exciting and valuable brand in the world. Silue pointed out that Apple is a symbol of quality, simplicity, and innovation, that runs from store design to customer service.
Fatogoma Silue announced that Apple is in partnership with Vodafone Ghana for the provision of reliable, fast, and high-speed ‘always-on’ broadband internet access to its internet cafe.
Source(s): Balancing Act Africa
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Ghana has been a pioneer in African telecommunications. Ghana launched the first cellular mobile network in sub-Saharan Africa in 1992. Ghana was among the first countries in Africa to be connected to the Internet and to introduce ADSL broadband services, and it has been involved in leading the way in market liberalization and deregulation, with its privatization of Ghana Telecom (GT) in 1996. 
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Vodafone paid USD $900 million for the stake, which valued the company at approximately USD $1.3 billion. The Government of Ghana will retain a 30% stake in the company.
