Surfline picks Huawei for nationwide expansion

Ghana’s first mobile telecommunications operator to deploy an LTE network, Surfline has selected China’s Huawei Technologies for its expansion works.
Currently, Surfline’s data service is only available in Accra and Tema in the Greater Accra Region.

The announcement was made at the just ended Mobile World Congress.

This was after a rigorous evaluation process which saw Huawei emerge the top vendor.

Surfline is already using the Chinese company’s devises for its mifi, modem and other devices and the it is also known worldwide for its success in frequency division duplex (FDD).

Once completed, Surfline will boast 700+ cell sites, making it one of the world’s largest independent LTE networks, a feat for the country’s only telecommunications network that is wholly owned by Ghanaians.

The expansion move is also part of demands by the regulator, the National Communications Authority (NCA) as well as the company’s ambitions to meet growing demands for its services.

Surfline gets $30m to expand LTE network

Vantage Mezzanine has announced it concluded a transaction with Ghana operator Surfline Communications to provide USD 30 million of expansion capital to the company together with a fund co-investor.

The funds will be used for the on-going expansion of Surfline’s LTE network in Ghana as well as to grow its product distribution and marketing network.
Source:Citifmonline

This idea of expansion throughout the country is very good.. Sufline is the network everybody wants to use on the net cos it's very fast among all the networks in ghana. But they should also do as well as possible and expand all their 4G networks accross the whole country.

Sounds like good news... Fingers crossed. I'm hoping they begin soon enough because some of us have waited too long for this.

That is very good news. We are eagerly waiting for that expansion.

Kumasi will enjoy this network by the end of the year

Their target area should be delivery very high speeds across a very robust and stable network infrastructure. We all heard of the massive campaign Glo embarked on when they were about to launch in Ghana. It featured talks like the only telco at the time to have a dedicated submarine cable...etc etc. Now look at them. Glo currently has the slowest internet speeds in Ghana (if I'm not mistaken).

Expansion is good but they should also work hard to ensure stability so as to avoud cogestion and other problems.

You are 100% on point. Glo has mightily disappointed with their speed after all the talks that they did.Hoping surfline is different.