If you are a certain age and live in Accra, Tema, Kasoa, Takoradi, and their environs, there was probably a time when you thought Surfline was like, man, going to bankrupt MTN & Vodafone for real!Nowadays, I hear folks on social media cursing and cussing, and shaking their fists at their Surfline modems gathering dust on corner stools.

Some bought into the euphoria at its peak.

And now the bloody devices won't connect,How we got here is both thrilling and tragic.  1.

The spunky startup was founded in 2011 by one of Ghana's most formidable fuel and real estate magnates.