Ghana's mobile phone subscriber base passed the 7 million mark at the end of 2007, figures published by the National Communication Authority show. The country recorded quarterly growth of 8.4 percent in the last three months of the year, boosting the total number of mobile users to 7.604 million at year-end. MTN Ghana was market leader with 4.016 million subscribers, ahead of Millicom Ghana (Tigo) with 2.023 million. GT-OneTouch and Kasapa Telecom took third and fourth place respectively, with 1.276 million and 289,066 subscribers. Tigo topped the list in terms of net subscriber additions in Q4, signing up a net 426,640 new users, compared with 143,743 for MTN and 21,456 for Kasapa Telecom. Ghana Telecom's mobile arm OneTouch recorded a net loss of 4,493 users in the last three months of the year, with a proportion of the net decline being attributed to subscribers having their lines cut or deactivated from the network.
