{"id":277502,"date":"2019-05-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEGvUvdyE2cKIS2rzWps0jcIqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4uzwCjCF3bsCMIrOrwM?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:28:15","slug":"bloomberg-said-mtn-was-eyeing-ethiopia-as-the-telecom-market-prepared-to-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277502","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg said MTN was eyeing Ethiopia as the telecom market prepared to open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Bloomberg reported that MTN Group was watching Ethiopia as the country prepared to open its telecom market after years of state monopoly under Ethio telecom.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bloomberg said MTN was eyeing Ethiopia as the telecom market prepared to open\" \/>\n<p>Africa\u2019s largest mobile operator by subscribers framed Ethiopia as a high-potential market once licenses and foreign ownership rules allowed new entrants.<\/p>\n<p>The story sat at the start of a liberalization fight that later brought Global Partnership for Ethiopia and other bidders into public view.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as telecom and business archive, the MTN interest note dates early private-operator positioning before Ethiopia\u2019s license awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-05-29\/mtn-eyes-ethiopia-entry-as-country-prepares-to-open-market\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Eyes Ethiopia Entry as Country Prepares to Open Market&nbsp;&nbsp;BloombergMTN Group Ltd. has identified Ethiopia as a rare new market into which Africa\u2019s largest wireless carrier wants to expand. \u201cThere are a few large markets that are under-penet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1abQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754965,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277502\/revisions\/754965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}