Telecommunications penetration is widely understood as a driver of development. Yet the barriers of price and access have long hampered substantive increases in teledensity in developing economies, especially in terms of broadband.

Cactel Communications proposes a cost-effective infrastructure to reach the millions of potential telecom consumers who have until now remained underserved or unserved by telephony and broadband services. The Cactel solution is a powerline communications (PLC) network that transmits across a electricity network a broadband infrastructure for the delivery of voice, data, multimedia services and applications to the benefit of consumers, government, SMEs and multinational industries across all sectors.

PLC is an access technology providing enhanced service to all current telecommunications players, fixed line telecoms, wireless operators and ISPs. Electric utilities are also beneficiaries of PLC as it provides them an intelligent electric distribution grid that can pass onto the consumer greater reliability and security as well as lower electric power costs.

For Ghana, harnessing the electricity network for telecom expansion represents extending and sustaining a telecom market throughout the country, rural or urban, wherever that electricity grid reaches. Such an equitable platform of telecom infrastructure creates an enabling and sustainable environment for Ghana to meet its ICT goals for development.