Glo Ghana boss, George Andah has disclosed exclusively to Adom Business News that the 023-3 number reservation campaign has been successful, creating the opportunity to open up another block of numbers beginning with 023-5 to enable more people reserve special numbers ahead of commercial launch. “023-3 has been successful – majority of those numbers have already been reserved but we also have our ears on the ground and a lot of people are telling us that the special numbers they wanted have already been reserved and that is why we have opened up the 023-5 block to give those people the opportunity to do so,” he said. The “Reserve Your Number Campaign” allowed some one million Ghanaians to text a special number beginning with 023-3 plus one’s own choice of six digits, to 0230010100 and reserve that special number until commercial service begins. Prior to the Glo ‘Reserve Your Number Campaign’ launch, some telecom bosses said the market was not ready for the new entrant; but George Andah responded and said “if competition is not ready for us, Ghanaians are.” George repeated his strong statement saying “we said the customers were ready for Glo and this active participation is testimony to that.” But George Andah stopped short of saying when exactly Glo will be doing its commercial launch since the 023-3 has been successful. Meanwhile a cross section of Ghanaians who spoke with Adom News about Glo Mobile’s entry into the market have said they are very expectant of telecom company and also look forward to better services from Glo. Glo has promised world-class service, world-class communication experience, fastest and most stable data service and more. The company has always said it will be ‘aggressive’ and competitive on quality of network service, tariffs and customer care, and it boasts of a network ready to accommodate up to 10 million customers congestion-free for starters. That promise is backed by over US$750million worth of infrastructure comprising the latest broadband technology, Next Generation Networks, over 1,600 state-of-the-art Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), four ultra modern Switches with capacity for up to 10 million lines with congestion-free service, 18 Base Switching Centres (BSC), 800 3G Node Bs, an ultra-modern Call Centre and 25 GloWorld outlets. All that is also complemented by the high-capacity Glo 1 submarine fibre-optic cable that connects Ghana directly to Europe with a dedicated extension to the USA and a 2,900 kilometre-long network of terrestrial fibre optic ring within Ghana, “to provide Ghanaians with premium service on Glo”. Glo would be the first telecom operator to launch from scratch at almost 100% nationwide coverage, and Glo Ghana Boss George Andah says that is to ensure that right from the onset Ghanaians can make calls on Glo no matter their location in the country. Glo is the sixth telecom operator in Ghana, and some telecom bosses say it would have difficulties growing in the relatively small and challenging Ghanaian market, but others say it has room and opportunity to grow on the back of data services and good will from Ghanaians.