Safaricom Ethiopia has switched on its mobile telecommunications network and services in Addis Ababa, the country’s capital city. The Ethiopian government launched Digital Ethiopia 2025 to help the country realise its digital potential and leverage [c]
Ethiopia’s smartphone shipments increased by 9.8% in the first quarter of 2021, according to the latest Market Monitor report from Counterpoint Research. The growth was driven by an increase in the mobile phone network penetration [c]
Kenya’s telco Safaricom, its South African shareholder Vodacom and UK’s Vodafone have partnered and submitted a joint bid for the two new full-service telecommunication licenses in Ethiopia. Working under the umbrella of Global Partnership for [c]
Four global consulting firms are angling to win the contract to offer consultancy services during the partial privatisation of Ethiopia’s telecom monopoly, Ethio Telecom. The four firms – Roland Berger, PwC, EY and Deloitte – [c]
Ethio Telecom, the telecom monopoly of Ethiopia, has donated 100 million Br (or $3.1 million) to support the government’s efforts to fight and contain the potential spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Since [c]
Ethio Telecom is, in a bid to boost the country’s overall mobile phone penetration and smartphone usage, set to introduce a device financing scheme which will enable subscribers to acquire smartphones and pay for the [c]
Ethio Telecom, the state-owned telecom monopoly in Ethiopia, has announced the launch of its LTE Advanced 4G network in its bid to provide higher data speeds to internet subscribers in the capital, Addis Ababa. The [c]
Hidasie Telecom, a telecom products and services distributor which was started over 9 years by retrenched Ethio Telecom staff, has began constructing a mixed-use business complex which will act as its corporate headquarters, for an [c]
The Ethiopia government is set to issue two telecoms licences to multinational telcos, according to a senior official. The Horn of Africa country also plans to offer a minority stake in Ethio Telecom, the monopoly [c]
Ethiopia’s parliament is this coming Monday -June 10, 2019 – expected to approve a law covering the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector, effectively opening up the industry that has so far been a monopoly to [c]
Telecom, media and tech investment and consolidation activity in Africa is predicted to reach a record high for 2019 as a number of significant deals including the opening up of Ethiopia’s telecom sector are scheduled, [c]
The Ethiopian government, through the Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT), has embarked on the process of registering new mobile phones getting into the country. The device registeration, which began mid this month, is [c]
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