{"id":358263,"date":"2021-05-22T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=358263"},"modified":"2021-05-22T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T19:16:24","slug":"ethiopias-council-of-ministers-passed-decision-allowing-global-partnership-for-ethiopia-to-secure-telecom-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/358263","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s Council of Ministers passed decision allowing Global Partnership for Ethiopia to secure telecom license (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Ministers Saturday decided to grant a new nationwide telecom license for Global Partnership for Ethiopia &#8211; a consortium of telecom operators made of Vodafone, Vodacom, Safaricom, Sumitomo Corporation, and the CDC Group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Council of Ministers has unanimously made a decision today allowing Ethiopian Communications Authority to grant a new nationwide telecom license to the Global Partnership for Ethiopia which offered the highest licensing fee and a very solid investment case,&#8221; Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed twitted on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith over $8 billion total investment, this will be the single largest FDI into Ethiopia to date,\u201d Abiy said in a twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur desire to take Ethiopia fully digital is on track. I would like to thank all that have taken part in this and for pulling off a very transparent and effective process,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Communications Authority congratulated the Global Partnership for Ethiopia announcing the beginning of a new era in the country to provide better quality communication service to citizens and businesses. Video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"462\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUTvmfwCI04\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Ministers Saturday decided to grant a new nationwide telecom license for Global Partnership for Ethiopia &#8211; a consortium of telecom operators made of Vodafone, Vodacom, Safaricom, Sumitomo Corporation, and the CDC Group. &#8220;The Council of Ministers has unanimously made a decision today allowing Ethiopian Communications Authority to grant a new nationwide telecom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":358266,"comment_status":"open","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-358263","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\/05\/Abiy-3.jpg?fit=1138%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1vcr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358263","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358279,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358263\/revisions\/358279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}