Safaricom
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Safaricom Ethiopia’s mobile money service M-PESA is now live for Android users in the country, with an iOS version set to follow.
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Anwar Soussa will step down two years after launching Ethiopia’s second mobile network
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The Kenyan government has started a project to build a 100,000km national fibre network.
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M-Pesa, the pioneering mobile money platform run by Safaricom and the Vodacom group, is now run from a cloud operations centre in Kenya.
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Kenya’s tax authority is to install its own technology so it can track and tax voice, internet and SMS traffic.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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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.
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Vodafone Group’s Safaricom Ethiopia is launching the country’s first competitive network in the face of a blazing civil war. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks the company’s Matthew Harrison-Harvey how they’re managing to do it
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Ethio Telecom and new rival Safaricom Ethiopia are close to a deal on infrastructure sharing and interconnection.
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Ethiopia’s new competitive telecoms operator has missed its deadline for launch, and is not giving any information about a new date.
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The government of Ethiopia has postponed its sale of 40% of state-controlled Ethio Telecom, blaming “recent developments and fast-moving macroeconomic changes”.
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Kenyan operator Safaricom is to use Intelsat satellites to expand LTE coverage to more subscribers across the country
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Safaricom Ethiopia, the new telecoms operator that will compete with Ethio Telecom from April, has signed a dark fibre agreement with the nation’s electricity grid company
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Safaricom, the new operator in Ethiopia, is gearing up for its launch in competition with Ethio Telecom by asking for partners in areas from network equipment to content.
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Ethio Telecom failed to reach its revenue target in the last half-year before it faces competition from Safaricom.
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Vodacom shareholders have approved a proposal to buy a controlling 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt for the equivalent of US$2.68 billion.
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Kenyans made 1.9 trillion mobile money transactions in the first 11 months of 2021, worth more than US$55 billion.
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Ethiopia has cancelled its plan to offer a new telecoms licence that would have brought a third company into the market, compete with Ethio Telecom and Safaricom.
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Ethiopia has called for proposals for a second private telecoms operator to compete with Ethio Telecom, the incumbent, and Safaricom, licensed earlier this year.
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Vodafone Group Plc and the International Telecommunication Union are to address the global digital divide through a new working group.
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The government of Ethiopia has finally asked for proposals for the sale of a 40% stake in Ethio Telecom.
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Ethio Telecom is building network capacity and planning to pilot 5G mobile as it prepares for competition at the end of 2021.
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Kenyan operator Safaricom has teamed up with Nokia, UNICEF, and the country’s ministries of education and ICT to connect close to 90 primary schools serving 33,000 pupils to the internet in rural and informal urban settlements.
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Government officials in Ethiopia have told media that the country will open bidding for its second telecoms operator licence this month.
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The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) has announced that Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC has been issued with a final licence. However, over half of the winning consortium's financing could be in doubt due to US sanctions.
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The Global Partnership for Ethiopia (GPE) has appointed Anwar Soussa as the managing director (MD) of the operating company in Ethiopia.
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Companies have 30 days from today to tell the government of Ethiopia if they are interested in buying a 40% stake in state-owned Ethio Telecom.