{"id":798355,"date":"2021-04-26T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/04\/26\/ethiopia-receives-two-bids-for-two-telecoms-operating-licences\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:54:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T09:54:45","slug":"ethiopia-receives-two-bids-for-two-telecoms-operating-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/04\/26\/ethiopia-receives-two-bids-for-two-telecoms-operating-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia receives two bids for two telecoms operating licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has received two bids for two new telecoms operating licences that have advanced to the next stage to secure permission to operate in the Horn of Africa nation, said a senior advisor at the ministry of finance.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s MTN has submitted one of the bids, while the other came from a consortium of Kenya&#8217;s Safaricom , Vodafone and Vodacom, Brook Taye, the senior advisor, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s CDC Group and Japan&#8217;s Sumitomo Corporation are also part of the consortium, the ministry of finance said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Brook told Reuters that it should not take more than a week for the winners of the licences to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>The licences will pave the way to open up the 110 million people Horn-of-Africa nation&#8217;s telecoms industry, which is considered the big prize in the country&#8217;s push to liberalise the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has received two bids for two new telecoms operating licences that have advanced to the next stage to secure permission to operate in the Horn of Africa nation, said a senior advisor at the ministry of finance. South Africa&#8217;s MTN has submitted one of the bids, while the other came from a consortium of Kenya&#8217;s Safaricom , Vodafone and Vodacom, Brook Taye, the senior advisor, told Reuters. The United Kingdom&#8217;s CDC Group and Japan&#8217;s Sumitomo Corporation are also part of the consortium, the ministry of finance said in a tweet. Brook told Reuters that it should not take more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}