USTDA and C-Squared Africa Sign Deal to Expand Ghana Fibre Connectivity Along Power Grid
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency has signed a deal with C-Squared Africa to expand affordable digital connectivity in Ghana by extending fibre infrastructure along the country's power grid. The agreement represents a concrete, project-level commitment to closing Ghana's broadband access gap.
Fibre Deal: a feasibility study is not a fibre network
Running fibre along Ghana's existing power-grid lines is genuinely smart — the poles and right-of-way are already there, which cuts the hardest part of deployment.
But what USTDA and C-Squared Africa have actually signed is a feasibility study. Not a shovel. Not a timeline. A study to see whether it can be done.
For builders depending on affordable connectivity outside Accra, that distinction matters a lot. The idea is real; the infrastructure isn't yet.