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New telecommunications operator licensed in Ethiopia
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A woman walks in front of an office of Ethio telecom, till now Ethiopia’s sole telecommunications provider, in Addis Ababa, 26 April 2021, EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images A private telecommunications operator has been licensed in Ethiopia, but the real test is in how it will operate in the country s heavily controlled media environment.
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 24 May 2021.
By Juliet Nanfuka
Ethiopia, one of the world’s last closed telecommunications markets, has been liberalised. On May 22, 2021, the Ethiopian government announced that a new telecommunications license had been awarded to the Global Partnership for Ethiopia – a consortium comprising Kenya’s Safaricom PLC, Vodacom Group, Vodafone Group, the United Kingdom’s development finance institution CDC Group plc, the Japanese-owned Sumitomo Corporation,
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In this file photo, PPP Senator Sherry Rehman addresses the Senate. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday expressed concern over the government’s plan to establish the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) through an ordinance and vowed to resist it with full force, terming it an attempt to gag the media in the country.
In a statement, PML-N information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb declared the government’s move to establish the PMDA through an ordinance an “unconstitutional step” and in conflict with Article 19 of the Constitution which guaranteed freedom of expression and a free media in the country.