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Ethio Telecom partners five companies to resell its internet service

April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

ETHIOPIA – Ethio Telecom, an Ethiopian telecommunication company, has signed a three-year contractual agreement with five virtual internet service partners to resell its internet service. The state-owned telecom provider signed partnership agreement with Sky Net IT Solutions, Zergaw ISP, Web Sprinks, Viva Tech Trading and Dule Business Group, Frehiwot Tamiru, Ethio Telecom CEO, described the agreement as “long-term agreement” aimed…

Ethio Telecom partners Subex for assurance solution on AI platform

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022

ETHIOPIA – Ethio Telecom, the Ethiopian telecommunication company, has partnered with Subex, the Indian enterprise software company, for a new business assurance solution using the enterprise AI platform HyperSense. Through this engagement, Ethio telecom will expand its Revenue Assurance practice into Business Assurance using the solutions easy-to-use control building framework and enhance decision making through the platform’s ability to operationalize…

Ethiopia abandons plans for a new telecom licence

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022

ETHIOPIA – The government of Ethiopia has cancelled its plan to offer a new telecoms licence that would have brought a third company into the market, competing with Ethio Telecom and Safaricom. The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) said in a note to the industry that it had received “concerns and requests from several prospective bidders to delay the process”. The…

Ethiopia invites bids for second telecoms license

September 29, 2021September 29, 2021

ETHIOPIA – Telecommunications regulator Ethiopian Telecommunications Authority, has invited a request for proposals for a second national telecoms license. Marking the next phase of the widely heralded liberalization of Ethiopia’s telecoms market, the second license (License B) is due to be issued in January 2022, introducing a third telecoms operator to compete alongside Ethio Telecom and the Global Partnership for Ethiopia…

Ethiopia to reopen bidding for second telecoms license in August 2021

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021

ETHIOPIA – The government of Ethiopia will open bidding for its second telecommunications operator licence in August 2021, which will extend to the right to operate mobile money services in the country earlier not available in the first licence. The Horn-of-Africa nation sold only one of two full-service licences on offer in May 2021, citing a lower-than-expected price for the second…

Orange expresses interest for stake in Ethio Telecom

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

ETHIOPIA – French multinational telecommunications company Orange has submitted an expression of interest to participate in the ongoing partial privatization of Ethiopia’s Ethio Telecom firm for an undisclosed value, Ethiopia’s ambassador to Paris has revealed. Henok Teferra Shawl said in a tweet Orange had “formally submitted an interest to participate in the partial privatization of @ethiotelecom.” In June 2021, Ethiopia launched a…

Ethio Telecom and Ericsson join hands to deploy 4G network in South West region of Ethiopia

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021

ETHIOPIA – Telecommunication company Ethio Telecom has partnered with Ericsson to expand its 4G services into the South West region of Ethiopia. According to a press release from the Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company, the Ethiopian service provider will use Ericsson Radio System products for this deployment of which the core expansion will be carried out in Ethio Telecom’s…

Ethiopia moves to sell 40% stake in Ethio Telecom

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021

ETHIOPIA – The government of Ethiopia has launched a tendering process for the proposed sell-off of a 40% stake in state-owned telco Ethio Telecom to private investors, part of its broader plan to open up the economy. Interested investors can now submit expressions of interest (EOIs), the first of a series of stages that will lead to picking of a successful…

Ethio Telecom opens new Huawei-built modular data center

May 22, 2021May 22, 2021

ETHIOPIA – Ethiopian telecommunication company Ethio Telecom, has launched what it says is the biggest Tier III-ready modular data centre in Ethiopia. The incumbent operator said that the new data centre, in the Gola Sefer district of the capital, Addis Ababa, was supplied by Huawei. “The newly built data centre will firstly serve existing service provision such as mobile money…

Safaricom gets 56% stake in Global Partnership for Ethiopia consortium

May 19, 2021May 19, 2021

ETHIOPIA – Mobile network operator Safaricom, has raised its controlling stake in Global Partnership for Ethiopia, the consortium that has made a bid for one of two telecoms licences in Kenya’s northern neighbour, to 56 percent from the 51 percent. The details of the consortium’s latest ownership structure were disclosed by South Africa-based Vodacom Group which owns a 34.9 percent stake in…