{"id":278994,"date":"2019-06-14T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEHIFVpJUeVnntUnKv4aNF-8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4uzwCjCF3bsCMIrOrwM?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:19","slug":"bloomberg-said-parliament-approved-a-law-opening-ethiopias-telecom-market-to-foreign-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278994","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg said parliament approved a law opening Ethiopia\u2019s telecom market to foreign investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 June 2019 Bloomberg reported that Ethiopia\u2019s parliament approved a draft law allowing foreign companies to invest in the telecommunications industry of Africa\u2019s second-most populous nation.<\/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=\"Bloomberg said parliament approved a law opening Ethiopia\u2019s telecom market to foreign investors\" \/>\n<p>The vote moved Ethio Telecom\u2019s 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\u2019s market reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as telecom-law archive, the Bloomberg report dates the June 2019 statute that authorised foreign telecom investment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-06-14\/ethiopia-approves-law-to-open-telecoms-to-foreign-investors\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia Approves Law to Open Telecoms to Foreign Investors&nbsp;&nbsp;BloombergEthiopia&#8217;s parliament approved a draft law that enables foreign companies to invest in the telecommunications industry of Africa&#8217;s second-most populous nation.<\/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-278994","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-1azU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278994","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=278994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755218,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278994\/revisions\/755218"}],"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=278994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}