THE National Communications Authority (NCA) is to embark on a nation-wide inspection of facilities belonging to service providers in the telecommunication industry.
This is to ensure that inferior structures, especially masts, put up by the service providers are decommissioned to secure the safety of the communities where those structures are sited.
The move has become necessary following the collapse of a telecommunication mast at Mpintsim in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis last week that caused massive disruption of power in 13 communities.
Officials of the NCA made this known to the Daily Graphic after visiting the site of the collapsed mast yesterday.
It was detected during the visit that the steel used in the construction of the mast was of inferior quality.
The NCA officials said the owners of the facility, who failed to maintain the 10-year-old structure, leading to its collapse, would be sanctioned.
According to them, as part of a new measure, every communication or Internet service provider would have to obtain a structural licence which would ensure that the right company was contracted, as well as the right materials obtained, before structures such as masts could be mounted.
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