{"id":1041401,"date":"2022-04-01T09:11:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/01\/internet-cafe-business-slowing-down\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T09:11:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:11:27","slug":"internet-cafe-business-slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/01\/internet-cafe-business-slowing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Cafe business slowing down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Tema, March 30, GNA \u2013 The Internet Cafe businesses, which emerged in the early 1990s and hit a boom in the 2000s have now taken a nosedive as available data indicates that about 41.<\/p>\n
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69 million mobile connections in Ghana as of January 2021.<\/div>\n
The number of mobile connections in Ghana increased by 3.1 million ( 8.1%) between January 2020 and January 2021. The number of mobile connections in Ghana in January 2021 was equivalent to 132.8 per cent of the total population which has reduced the patronage of Internet Cafes.<\/div>\n
Mr Prince Kyei-Frimpong who works with the Smart Consult Caf\u00e9 in Tema told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the introduction of smartphones made it easy for users to get access to the Internet at will.<\/div>\n
Mr Kyei-Frimpong said large access and usage of smartphones had affected the internet caf\u00e9 business as most people of them used their own mobile devices to undertake any other internet-based transactions which otherwise would have moved to an internet caf\u00e9.<\/div>\n
He said most people who use the internet caf\u00e9 are students undertaking online registration and printout of documents.<\/div>\n
Mr Kyei-Frimpong noted that the low patronage had forced operators to charge less for the service they render to their customers to attract them.<\/div>\n
Mr Hudu Odonkor, Manager of Minkom IT Solutions Tema, agreed to the current challenges facing the Internet cafe business. \u201cPeople do walk in to print out an official document like the recruitment forms, to check BECE placements, results, and others,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
However, people still walk in for Internet services, print out, photocopies whenever they want but it does not get crowded most of the time.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tema, March 30, GNA \u2013 The Internet Cafe businesses, which emerged in the early 1990s and hit a boom in the 2000s have now taken a nosedive as available data indicates that about 41. 69 million mobile connections in Ghana as of January 2021. The number of mobile connections in Ghana increased by 3.1 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}