M-Pesa now in Ethiopia? Ethiopia has issued Kenya’s telecom giant Safaricom a license to operate mobile money services, the first foreign firm to get such a permit in this populous nation. More here:
National Bank of Ethiopia/TwitterSafaricom becomes the first foreign firm to get such a permit in the largely unbanked nation
Ethiopia has issued Kenya’s telecom giant Safaricom a licence to operate mobile money services, the first foreign firm to get such a permit in the populous nation. The state-owned Ethio telecom had been the sole provider of telecom and mobile money services for a country of over 110 million people.
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