Tag: Ethiopia

Research carried out by telecommunication research company Cable UK finds Kenya to have quite expensive monthly internet packages. In addition, ...

Kenyan president William Ruto was recently in the USA where he announced plans to waive taxes on the first 100,000 ...

The African Development Bank’s 2023 East Africa Economic Outlook forecasts that growth in the region will surpass 5%.  Hence, the ...

Onafriq, an African digital payments network, and Safaricom’s M-Pesa have signed an International Money Transfer Agreement. The agreement aims to ...

On Wednesday 16th August 2023, Safaricom officially launched its mobile banking service M-Pesa in Ethiopia. “We are excited to go ...

Safaricom services in Ethiopia are a done deal, and most of the work has been completed over the course of ...

The Safaricom Ethiopia story started a long time ago. The Ethiopia bid was a tough one and involved a lot ...

Safaricom Ethiopia is now officially open, following an event that was attended by Kenya’s President William Ruto, among others including ...

Safaricom services have since gone live in Ethiopia. The launch, which is still in its pilot phase, comes more than ...

This week, Safaricom kicked off operations in Ethiopia. The operations, which start as a pilot for residents in the city ...

Safaricom, among its partners (Vodacom Group, Sumitomo Corporation, and CDC Group all named Global Partnership for Ethiopia (GPE)), acquired operating license for ...

Safaricom Ethiopia has since started operations, following years of lobbying in the country that cost it USD 850 million. When ...

Safaricom operations in Ethiopia have since started following years of lobbying and waiting for approvals from various state agencies in ...

The Digital Quality of Life Index series, also known as DQL has released its third annual issue. The edition names ...

By now, we are aware that Safaricom is in Ethiopia. The telco is insanely popular locally and has exported its ...

Safaricom has since been given a go-ahead to enter the lucrative Ethiopian market after a long period of bids and ...

A few weeks ago, we learned that the plan to have Safaricom carrier services in Ethiopia was a done deal ...

It has been confirmed that Safaricom has finally entered the Ethiopia market, following a report published by Bloomberg that the ...

Rumours about a Safaricom entry in Ethiopia, and effectively the launch of M-PESA services in the country started way back ...

Ethiopia has been on a path to partly privatize its telecoms industry. Over the last couple of months, the country ...

Safaricom has made it to the shortlist of the six companies that have been cleared to bid for the coveted ...

Safaricom and its partners have signed an agreement to borrow $500 million from the US International Development Finance Corporation to ...

Electric cars are increasing in popularity thanks to companies like Tesla and legacy car manufacturers are starting to take them ...

Back in April, Ethiopia opened the floor for new players who wanted to be part of its telco space, particularly ...

A couple of weeks ago, Ethiopia announced that it has opened the floor for mobile money for telcos. The development ...

As of April 2020, Ethiopia has allowed new players to take part in the mobile space. New entrants, in this ...

Ethiopia's parliament passed a law on Thursday that imposes jail terms for those people whose Internet post stir unrest, Reuters reports. This ...

Gebeya Inc, an Ethiopian company that focuses on ed tech and online software outsourcing has closed a $2 million (Kshs ...

Yesterday, the Ethiopian Communications Authority kicked off their public consultation process prior to issuing new telecommunications licences. This move signals ...

On 17th of July, Reuters reported that Safaricom was in "advanced talks" with the Ethiopian government to take the mobile money ...

Yesterday, Nailab CEO Sam Gichuru brought to light an issue that had been ongoing for more than two years. The ...

One of the things that have been banned in Ethiopia is the use of social media and it carries a ...

Countries blocking Internet access has taken limelight these past few users and the authorities have different reasons of doing that. ...

Samsung's flagship device of 2013, the Samsung Galaxy S 4 has finally had it's launch in Kenya. This follows a ...