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In a rather interesting twist to the much anticipated launch of Glo unto the market tomorrow, the company has announced another postponement. According to Glo, the rescheduling has arisen due to logistics constraints. GLOBACOM had earlier indicated plans to finally launch its operations in Ghana as the sixth mobile phone service provider on November 17, 2011. This was to follow the commercial launch of its GLO-1 submarine cable officially last August. However, officials of Glo met with journalists this morning to announce that its launch has been rescheduled. Checks with developments in the telecom industry also say that Glo�s new move could be a way of outwitting its competitors but Mr. Obesitan, the Events and Promotions director of Glo, downplayed such assertions. He said �We are confident that with the infrastructure we have deployed and the amount of work we have put in to this, we will meet the expectation of Ghanaians. "They [Ghanaians] have been waiting and we are doing a great job; it�s not a joke to build one thousand six hundred towers because we don�t intend to be a regional network but a national telecom operator from day one. � He added that technically, the company was ready to take off by way of receiving calls on the network, thus could cater for about ten million subscribers. Meanwhile responding to concerns that the seemingly overstretched heightened expectation of Glo�s launch could work against the company, Mr. Obesitan said the delay was not deliberate and assured that the company was eager to begin operations. Glo has, on another hand, commissioned an ultra-modern Call-centre at Spintex in Accra. The fully built-in Call-centre has the capacity to handle close to 10 million customers and is also expandable. The facility operates in 4 languages; English, Twi, Ga and Hausa. There are already test runs from various regions of the country through the call-centre to ascertain the operators� readiness for the market. GLOBACOM was granted the country's sixth mobile license in June 2008 and has since been working tirelessly to launch its operations.