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Vodafone consumers can enjoy the convenience of wider WiFi coverage and continuous internet access service in 3 additional WiFi hotspots. The telecommunications giant has rolled out high speed WiFi hotspots at Villagio, Labadi Beach Hotel and the Best Western Hotel. Customers at these locations can enjoy speeds as high as 54 to 100 Mbps . Vodafone Ghana is extending its arm in providing WiFi connectivity at convenient locations across the nation and will continue to increase the number of locations to create Ghana�s largest, fastest and most affordable WiFi network. The service will position users to benefit from an unmatched, superior user experience which entails surfing the web at very high speeds, downloading and uploading data, sending instant messages, checking emails and viewing and editing attachments. Users with 3G enabled smartphones will also be able to send documents to printers from any computer or smartphone. They can forward notifications from smartphones to pc�s, tether smartphones to computers for wide internet coverage, stream movies to any Television set, share files with nearby computers, stream audio to any speaker and wirelessly transfer photos from digital cameras. The tariff plan for the service is a pre-paid voucher system set at GHC 1.80 per hour. Carmen Bruce Annan, Head of Corporate Communications at Vodafone has said that, �Vodafone WiFi hotspots will be strategically located at leading premium hotels, hospitals, restaurants, and generally convenient locations that are the hub of corporate, community and social activities. This motivation has informed the addition of Villagio, Labadi Beach Hotel and The Best Western Hotel to our portfolio of WiFi hotspots. For us, this is an initiative to deliver a superior internet experience to our customers and to widen internet access to Ghanaians in general. The world is rapidly globalizing and the internet has become a �must �have� for one�s everyday life. We believe that people should not be deprived of internet access and we want to make this readily available to Ghanaians. � Vodafone Ghana will continue to increase WiFi hotspots to extend its broadband facility in the country and deliver affordable and high-speed internet access to its customers and the general public.