Based in Addis Ababa, it is one of the "Big-5" group of state owned corporations in Ethiopia, along with Ethiopian Airlines, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Ethiopian Insurance Corporation, and the Ethiopian Shipping Lines. Ethio Telecom (stylised as ethio telecom; Amharic: ኢትዮ ቴሌኮም), previously known as the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ቴሌኮሙኒኬሽን ኮርፖሬሽን, ETC), is an Ethiopian telecommunication company serving as the major internet, telephone and digital services provider. Ethiopia's telecom monopoly ended in 2021, when ECA awarded Safaricom Ethiopia the country's first private sector operator license. Ethiopia's state-owned telecommunications company has started selling shares to the public, in a move. In an era when Africa's state-owned enterprises are often dismissed as sluggish relics of the past, Ethio telecom is breaking the mold. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian government has invited interested parties in the partial privatization of the state-owned telecommunication firm, Ethio-Telecom. by selling up to 45 percent of the.
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