Some 54 per cent of Ghanaians living abroad say they couldn’t live without their phones, according to a survey of 114 of them by Ding, a mobile top-up network.
In a press release on the survey on how Ghanaians use their phones copied to ghanabusinessnews.com Tuesday July 3, 2017, it said 45 per cent of Ghanaians living abroad call their spouses first if they have good news to share.
Ding indicated that it surveyed members of the Ghanaian diaspora community who use its service to send top-up to their friends and family back home in Ghana.
Ghanaians living abroad use the service to send prepaid mobile top-up to MTN, Airtel, Tigo and Vodafone Ghana numbers every day, it said.
According to the results of the survey, 39 per cent of people use calls as the primary way they keep in touch, while 36 per cent use text, 12 per cent use WhatsApp, and 57 per cent of the respondents said that the phone is the primary way they access the internet.
Ding says it employs a team of 200 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with regional offices in Miami and Dubai.
By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi