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Safaricom Ethiopia has expanded to five additional cities, bringing its national footprint to 21 cities just three months after launching on 6 October.
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The government of Ethiopia has revived its plans to sell a 40% stake in its state-owned operator, Ethio Telecom.
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Ethiopia’s telecoms regulator has revived its plan to seek a competitor for state-owned Ethio Telecom and new rival Safaricom, which has been in business just months.
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Safaricom says it plans to invest US$300 million a year into Ethiopia over the next ten years, having already invested US1.2 billion in the country.
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Safaricom Ethiopia is to challenge incumbent operator Ethio Telecom with its own mobile money platform, M-Pesa.
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Safaricom Ethiopia has switched on its mobile telecommunications network and services in Addis Ababa, the country’s capital city.
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Ethio Telecom is aiming to increase its subscriber base by more than 10% over the next year, despite facing competition from Safaricom Ethiopia.
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Safaricom Ethiopia, which started pilot services last month, is to build the company’s third new data centre.
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The World Bank is investing US$160 million into the Safaricom project to build a new network in Ethiopia.
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Safaricom Ethiopia has begun a large-scale customer pilot of its network in the city of Dire Dawa, 350km east of Addis Ababa, the capital.
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Michael Joseph, founder of Kenya’s Safaricom and its pioneering mobile money venture M-Pesa, has flown north to Addis Ababa to supervise the troubled launch of its Ethiopian offshoot.
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Ethiopia’s continuing civil war is the reason the company achieved only 87.6% of its target revenue in the year ending 30 June 2022, Ethio Telecom said at the weekend.
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State-owned electricity company Kenya Power is to compete with Safaricom and other operators to offer fixed internet services.
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Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia will start launching services between next month and April 2023, the company announced today in Addis Ababa, the capital.
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Africa’s MTN group has announced three new CEOs, all of them women, and two of them CEOs for the first time. They take up their posts on 1 September.
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Safaricom has delayed the launch of services in Ethiopia, originally expected in April, and is not yet giving a new date.
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Ethiopia’s state-owned operator has introduced a limited 5G service into the capital city, Addis Ababa.
