{"id":278368,"date":"2019-06-07T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=ccd636fdb539201aa92779c873903407"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:41","slug":"reuters-said-ethiopias-parliament-was-set-to-approve-a-telecoms-liberalisation-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278368","title":{"rendered":"Reuters said Ethiopia\u2019s parliament was set to approve a telecoms liberalisation law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Reuters reported that Ethiopia\u2019s parliament was preparing to approve a telecoms liberalisation law that would open the long state monopoly of Ethio Telecom to private and foreign competition.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Reuters said Ethiopia\u2019s parliament was set to approve a telecoms liberalisation law\" \/>\n<p>Liberalising mobile and internet services was one of the biggest economic reform signals of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years, because it promised new investment, more network capacity, and an end to the single-operator model that had shaped Ethiopian communications for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as telecom and FDI archive, the Reuters update dates the legislative step toward opening Ethiopia\u2019s telecom market in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/ethiopia-telecoms\/update-1-ethiopia-parliament-to-approve-telecoms-liberalisation-law\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 1-Ethiopia parliament to approve telecoms liberalisation law&nbsp;&nbsp;ReutersEthiopia&#8217;s parliament on Monday will approve a law covering the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector, a parliament spokesman said, opening up one &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"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-278368","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\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1apO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278368","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=278368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755072,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278368\/revisions\/755072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}