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Ethiopia awards telecom licence to Safaricom-led consortium

162 Ethiopia’s telecommunications regulator awarded one operating license to a consortium led by Kenya’s Safaricom Vodafone, Japan’s Sumitomo Brook Taye, and UK finance agency CDC Group. The Council of Ministers has unanimously made a historic decision today allowing Ethiopian Communications Authority to grant a new nationwide telecom license to the Global Partnership for Ethiopia which offered the highest licensing fee and a very solid investment case, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said through his Twitter handle on Saturday. East Africa’s mobile telecommunication giant Safaricom owns 56 percent, Japan’s Sumitomo 25 percent, CDC 10 percent, Vodacom 6 percent, and the rest is owned by the UK sovereign investment fund in the global partnership for Ethiopia consortium.

Safaricom s bid to operate M-Pesa in Addis boosted by mobile money services launch

Safaricom’s bid to operate M-Pesa in Addis boosted by mobile money services launch Wednesday May 19 2021 Safaricom Plc headquarters in Kenya s capital Nairobi. The telco is eyeing the Ethiopian Market. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Advertisement Safaricom is still hopeful that it will launch mobile money services in Ethiopia as it awaits the decision on the acquisition of a licence to operate in the country. The telco’s bid for control of the Ethiopian telecommunication market seems to have received a boost ahead of the official acquisition of the licence with the news that the Addis administration plans to liberalise mobile money services next year.

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