{"id":723364,"date":"2019-10-15T06:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/15\/ich-is-up-and-running-nca-boss\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T06:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:54:07","slug":"ich-is-up-and-running-nca-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/15\/ich-is-up-and-running-nca-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"ICH is up and running \u2013 NCA Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/ich-is-up-and-running-nca-boss\/\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"371\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NCA-DIRECTOR-GENERAL-JOE-ANOKYE-Copy-696x371.jpg\"   alt=\"NCA DIRECTOR-GENERAL, JOE ANOKYE\" title=\"NCA DIRECTOR-GENERAL, JOE ANOKYE (Copy)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NCA DIRECTOR-GENERAL, JOE ANOKYE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Director-General of National Communications Authority<br \/>\n(NCA), Joe Anokye has said that the Interconnect Clearinghouse (ICH) for the<br \/>\ntelecom industry is now up and running. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists at the Ministry of Communications\u2019<br \/>\nmeet-the-press session, he noted that currently all mobile network operators<br \/>\nhave connected to the ICH, and the ICH is now up and running.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the ICH is not yet fully operational<br \/>\nbecause it has only one data centre in Accra, and it is expected to carry at<br \/>\nleast 40 per cent of interconnect traffic in the country by the end of December<br \/>\nthis year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the ICH operator [Afriwave Telecoms Ghana] is<br \/>\nbuilding another data centre in Kumasi and when that is done, they will be<br \/>\nready to eventually carry all interconnect traffic in the country,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Anokye added that all International Wholesale Carrier<br \/>\nLicensees (IWCLs) are also connected to the ICH to ensure that all inbound<br \/>\ninternational traffic goes through the ICH before terminating on the intended<br \/>\nnetwork. <\/p>\n<p>IWCLs are private local companies licensed to bring in<br \/>\ntelecom traffic from overseas into Ghana.The ones connected to ICH are Telstar,<br \/>\nUltranet, CallBetween, D- Comm., Crossover Telecom, Harmony, Internet Ghana,<br \/>\nBluetone, Lebara, 25th Century and Comsys.<\/p>\n<p>Adom News gathered from its impeccable sources that the ICH<br \/>\ntook off in March 2019 and in the month of September 2019 alone, it routed<br \/>\nexactly 115,438,944.50minutesof national interconnect traffic from the various<br \/>\ntelcos, representing 17.28% of the estimated total national interconnect<br \/>\ntraffic from telcos.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the total, market leader MTN routed 44.96 %;<br \/>\nAirtelTigo routed 36.38%; Vodafone routed 18.60%, while Glo Mobile interconnects<br \/>\ntraffic through the ICH accounted for 1.29% of the total for September 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Also, for the month of September 2019, the IWCLs routed a<br \/>\ntotal of 9,762,327.90 minutes of international inbound traffic (voice) through<br \/>\nthe ICH to MNOs, representing 27.89% of the total estimated international<br \/>\ninbound voice traffic of 34,997,384.14 minutes per month into Ghana. <\/p>\n<p>The international inbound traffic routed through ICH by<br \/>\nIWCLs to MTN for the period accounted for 77.29% of the total traffic; while<br \/>\ntraffic to Vodafone was 11.79%, AirtelTigo lines got 10.73% of international<br \/>\ntraffic and 0.18% terminated on Glo Mobile network. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Background \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that in 2016, Parliament passed the<br \/>\nElectronic Communication (Amendment) Bill, 2016 into law to mandate all telecom<br \/>\noperators and international wholesale carrier licensees to channel interconnect<br \/>\ntraffic through the ICH. <\/p>\n<p>This followed a competitive bid in 2014, in which Afriwave<br \/>\nwent head to head with four other companies and won the US$1.5 million license<br \/>\nin 2015 to run the ICH plus several other deliverables, including fighting SIM<br \/>\nBox fraud and revenue assurance among other things.<\/p>\n<p>But the license was amended in 2017 by NCA with the<br \/>\nobjective of making the ICH service provider to concentrate on its core mandate<br \/>\nof providing interconnect clearinghouse services. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The core mandate of the ICH is to enable the routing of<br \/>\ninterconnect services (traffic) through a mutual platform and the benefits<br \/>\ninclude; reduction in capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operational expenditure<br \/>\n(OPEX) of the telcos in setting up and maintaining peer-to-peer interconnect<br \/>\nsystems.<\/p>\n<p>The ICH will also enhanced interconnect cashflow, improve<br \/>\nliquidity within the interconnect regime and save cost for new entrants into<br \/>\nthe telecom space, with respect to connecting to existing players.<\/p>\n<p>Another key benefit of the ICH is ensuring the enforcement<br \/>\nof the interconnect services regulations by the NCA; make it easy for the<br \/>\nimplementation of policies as well as initiatives that require centralized and<br \/>\nindependent point of interconnection into the telecommunication ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>It proposes to, in the future, bring onboard even Value<br \/>\nAdded Services Providers in the telecom ecosystem and others to make it easy<br \/>\nfor them to access all telecom networks at one connection point.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>In connection with the government\u2019s digital agenda, the ICH,<br \/>\nwhich is also known as Telehouse in international circles, promises to be a<br \/>\nclearing house of several players in the telecom and digital space, allowing<br \/>\ngovernment to easily connect the necessary data for tax as well as policy<br \/>\nplanning purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Afriwave Telecom has signed an agreement and also<br \/>\nconcluded plans with its technical solution partner, Huawei for the rollout of<br \/>\nits second data center in Kumasi. <\/p>\n<p>The company said, \u201cwhen this is completed, it is expected that the ICH will carry all the national interconnect traffic leading to the abolition of peer-to-peer interconnection regime among MNOs in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Adom News|Samuel Dowuona <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCA DIRECTOR-GENERAL, JOE ANOKYE The Director-General of National Communications Authority (NCA), Joe Anokye has said that the Interconnect Clearinghouse (ICH) for the telecom industry is now up and running. 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