{"id":278946,"date":"2019-06-15T02:31:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T06:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaG91c2UtYXBwcm92ZXMtYmlsbC1lc3RhYmxpc2gtY29tbXVuaWNhdGlvbnMtYXV0aG9yaXR50gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:45","slug":"parliament-approved-a-bill-to-create-an-independent-communications-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278946","title":{"rendered":"Parliament approved a bill to create an independent communications authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 June 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia said the House of Peoples\u2019 Representatives approved a draft bill to establish an independent regulatory body for communications, a step officials tied to opening the telecom market beyond Ethio Telecom.<\/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=\"Parliament approved a bill to create an independent communications authority\" \/>\n<p>Lawmakers framed the authority as the agency that would license operators and set rules for a more competitive sector after years of monopoly provision.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as telecom-regulation archive, the Reporter story dates the June 2019 communications-authority statute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/house-approves-bill-establish-communications-authority\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House approves bill to establish communications authority&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe House of Peoples&#8217; Representatives (HPR) has approved a draft bill which would provide for the establishment of an independent regulatory body tasked &#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-278946","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-1az8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278946","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=278946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755226,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278946\/revisions\/755226"}],"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=278946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}