On 14 June 2019 Bloomberg reported that Ethiopia’s parliament approved a draft law allowing foreign companies to invest in the telecommunications industry of Africa’s second-most populous nation.
The vote moved Ethio Telecom’s monopoly closer to legal opening after officials had already floated year-end licence awards and a new independent regulator, and it marked a formal legislative step in Abiy Ahmed’s market reforms.
Kept as telecom-law archive, the Bloomberg report dates the June 2019 statute that authorised foreign telecom investment.
Sources: Bloomberg