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Telecel and MTN are spending billions; the question is what gets built
Telecel plans to grow from 5,000 to 9,000 sites. MTN has committed USD 1.1 billion over three years. Data now earns more than voice for the first time.
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Ghana is the first country on the continent to mandate pension fund allocation to venture capital. The question is whether the ecosystem can absorb it.
Ghana Music Xperience has 10,000 downloads and 135 reviews. The ownership of GMX Multimedia has never been disclosed. The marketing director also works at Jospong Group. The developer is a serial government contractor. Bawumia said the government would fund it. The company says it did not.
Ghana Music Xperience was launched by a Vice President, backed by a serial government contractor, and has 10,000 downloads after 18 months. STACX was built by a content creator who needed it and launched last month. The ownership of GMX has never been disclosed.
The AI system was built by an Israeli intelligence-tech company founded by Unit 8200 veterans and flags $3 million a day in undervalued imports. An internal GRA memo tells officers to ignore it when it flags lower values. Here is what we know.
After eleven years of pop-up events Makafui Ayimey says The Accra Goods Market is pivoting into a year-round Retail-as-a-Service platform. We try to look at the distance between a curated event business and a working RaaS platform.
PCFC funds everything. G42 builds the compute centre. Ghana contributes land and caps its own equity at 15%. The biggest tech investment commitment ever — and the most lopsided.
AAK's Kolo Nafaso programme has reached more than 320,000 women across four countries in seventeen years. The scale is impressive enough. What matters more is the exclusivity clause AAK decided it did not need.
Cabinet approved $250 million for a national AI compute centre. The hardware, the location, the financing structure, the vendor, and the timeline are all undisclosed. What is known, what is not, and what a Ferviddy reader should be asking before the April 24 strategy launch.
A one-point gap sustained across a reporting period moves the IMF programme's quantitative performance criteria.
The National Payment Systems Strategy names four work-streams covering 2025 through 2029. It does not name the cash-to-GDP target, the digital-share target, or the milestones between now and then.
The nature of commerce has changed and businesses that cannot operate digitally are operating in a different economy than the one their customers inhabit.