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It shall be the responsibility of the Authority –

(a) to advise the Minster and the Minister for Information on policy formulation and development strategies for the communications industry;

(b) to ensure strict compliance with this Act and regulations made under it;

(c) to grant licence for the operation of communication system as defined in section 44;

(d) to assign, allocate and regulate the use of frequencies in conformity with international requirements pursuant to any relevant treaties, protocols or conventions to which Ghana is signatory.

(e) to prepare and review National Frequency Allocation Plan;

(f) to establish the national numbering plan and to assign numbers accordingly;

(g) to act internationally as the national body representing Ghana in respect of communications;

(h) to designate standards of communications equipment;

(i) to determine a code of practice relating to dealings by operators with international communications operators and regulate international accounting rates;

(j) to provide guidelines on tariffs chargeable for the provision of communications services;

(k) to provide where practicable, authorizations to operators of radio telephone stations on ships and aircraft registered in Ghana;

(l) to establish training standards for communications operators and to monitor the implementation of the training standards;

(m) to provide, where reasonably practicable, advice and assistance to operators in the communications industry in Ghana for which there may be charged such fees as the Authority considers appropriate;

(n) to maintain a register of operators;

(o) to establish by regulations, the protection of data on computer files and their transmission and to safeguard the secrecy of communications and the protection of personal data in conjunction with communications

systems operators; and

(p) to perform any other functions assigned to it under this Act or any other enactment.