Ghana’s telecom regulator has formally launched the country’s first competitive auction for 5G spectrum, inviting mobile operators and new entrants to bid for airwaves that will determine who controls next-generation wireless capacity in the country for the next 15 years.
According to early reporting by TechFocus24, the National Communications Authority (NCA) has released a 32-page Request for Applications on July 16 covering three frequency bands — 700 MHz, 2.3 GHz, and the 3 GHz mid-band — with a submission deadline of August 6.
M-KOPA, the London-headquartered fintech that finances phones and solar products for Africa’s informal workforce, announced that it has reached 10 million customers across five countries — a milestone that took 14 years to build but only six to mostly complete.
Lagos-based SeamlessHR, the payroll and HR software company that counts Sterling Bank, PwC and Coronation among its roughly 2,000 corporate clients, is changing its name.
The new entity, Seamless Technologies, is meant to signal something more than a rebrand: a bet that the company’s real long-term value lies not in HR software itself, but in the financial data that HR software generates.
Village Capital has committed a combined $500,000 to three Ghanaian startups, closing out the initial Ghana portfolio for a $4 million pilot fund backed by Dutch development finance institutions and bringing the firm’s total investment in the country to $850,000 across five companies.
The three recipients — Built Financial Technologies, GrowForMe and SAYeTECH — join Rivia Clinics and VDL Fulfilment, which received a combined $350,000 in May. Village Capital has not disclosed how the latest $500,000 was divided among the three companies.
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