New fiber optic standards manual launched

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play videoThe papers provides method and procedural guidance for fibre deployment

The Ghana telecommunications manufacture has launched a broad fibre infrastructure standards manual to service arsenic a usher for manufacture players, enhancing the quality, durability, and ratio of the country's fibre optic network.

The manual outlines method specifications and minimum standards for each signifier of fibre deployment; from materials utilized to trenching dimensions, rod spacing, splicing techniques, and ongoing attraction protocols.

This papers provides method and procedural guidance for fibre deployment, serving arsenic an indispensable backbone for some information and dependable postulation successful Ghana.

According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Telecommunications Chamber, Ing. Ken Ashigbey, the manual establishes a self-regulatory model to guarantee contractors and subcontractors adhere to manufacture champion practices, peculiarly successful preventing predominant fibre cuts and infrastructure damage.

He stated that; “This manual tells you what benignant of instrumentality to use, however heavy and wide the trenches indispensable be, however splicing should beryllium done, and adjacent however acold you indispensable beryllium from different infrastructure. It’s the benchmark for safe, prime fibre installations successful Ghana.”

While lamenting the astir US$10 cardinal spent annually connected fibre chopped repairs, Ashigbey said the infrastructure repair costs would beryllium importantly reduced if the guidelines outlined successful the manual were decently followed.

“If we didn’t person to walk that US$10 million, we could widen fibre to schools, hospitals, and underserved communities,” the Telcos Chamber brag stated.

He further added that; “Better infrastructure means amended service. Fewer dropped calls, faster data, and little semipermanent costs for consumers.”

The papers is besides expected to play a cardinal relation successful the government's One Million Coders initiative, providing a model to bid young radical successful fibre deployment and maintenance.

This, helium said, volition beryllium an indispensable accomplishment acceptable for the country’s integer future.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Communications and Digital Technology has submitted the manual’s specifications to the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), proposing its adoption arsenic an authoritative Ghana Standard (GS) done the National Technical Committee connected Electronic Communication Standards (TC24).

Once adopted, the papers volition transportation ineligible backing and go enforceable by law.

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