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Ethiopia calls for interest in second full-service telecom licence
2021-09-29 10:02:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has published a request for proposals for its second new full-service telecommunications licence in Ethiopia...
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Will Djibouti follow Ethiopia in liberalising its telecoms sector?
2021-07-12 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
In an effort to modernise its economy and increase digitalisation, the Djibouti government have announced that they will be selling a minority stake in Djibouti Telecom, the state-owned incumbent operator. According to the announcement, investors in the company would also have the opportunity to expand into mobile money and data centres within the country…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Ethiopia readies sale of 40% of Ethio Telecom
2021-06-14 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been pushing to liberalise the country’s monopolistic telecoms sector for over a year now, facing numerous delays in the form of the coronavirus pandemic and internal strife in the Tigray region. Back in May, the Global Partnership for Ethiopia, a telco-consortium led by Safaricom, was announced as the winner of one of the two available operating licences being made available to break up Ethio Telecom&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Hela Clothing strikes intimates joint venture in Ethiopia
2021-01-05 12:56:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Sri Lanka-based global apparel manufacturer Hela Clothing has taken a 50% stake in Indonesia's Submiri Intimates Apparel Plc in a move that sees the creation of a new joint venture project to produce intimate products at Ethiopia's Hawassa Industrial Park.
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Telco entrants to Ethiopia not be allowed to launch mobile banking
2020-12-07 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Ethiopia is currently undergoing major upheaval, when a political move from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in November resulted in an armed uprising in the country’s northern Tigray region. The ongoing conflict has resulted in perhaps thousands of casualties. But, despite this period of civil unrest, two weeks ago the government said it would be moving ahead with auctioning new telecoms licences in December…read more on TotalTele.com »
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