Nairobi: The Ethiopian government on Thursday said it would sell up to 45 percent of Ethio Telecom<\/a>, a state-owned monopoly, up from an initial offer of 40 percent.

Ethiopia launched the process for the partial sale of the behemoth carrier in 2021 as part of a push to open up the country's tightly controlled economy.

The sale ran into headwinds and was postponed last March before the process was re-activated in mid-November, two weeks after the signing of a peace deal to end a two-year war in northern Ethiopia.

\"The Government of Ethiopia is proposing a partial privatization... by selling up to 45% of the equity share capital of the Company,\" the ministry of finance said in a public advertisement.

The government initially launched the process with a view to selling a 40-percent stake, inviting proposals from interested parties.

It hoped that opening up Ethio Telecom<\/a> would make the carrier -- which has 44 million subscribers -- more competitive and efficient.

Ending the state monopoly in the telecoms sector is a key component of an economic reform package that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced after coming to power in 2018.

In 2021, Ethiopia also issued a tender to award two licences to private telecommunication operators.

One licence was awarded to a consortium led by Kenya's Safaricom<\/a>, making it the first private telecommunications company to operate in the country of more than 110 million people.

But a bid by South Africa's MTN was deemed too low and turned down.
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埃塞俄比亚Ethio电信提出了股权出售

埃塞俄比亚启动过程的部分出售巨头运营商在2021年作为推动经济开放国家的严格控制。

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更新于2023年2月10日凌晨07:35坚持

内罗毕:埃塞俄比亚政府周四表示,将出售45%的Ethio电信国有垄断,从最初的40%。

埃塞俄比亚启动过程的部分出售巨头运营商在2021年作为推动经济开放国家的严格控制。

销售遇到了阻力,并推迟了去年3月在11月中旬重新启动这个过程之前,两周后签署和平协议,结束为期两年的战争在埃塞俄比亚北部。

“埃塞俄比亚政府提出部分私有化……通过出售普通股资本的45%的公司,”财政部说在公共广告。

政府最初启动过程以出售40%的股权,邀请感兴趣的建议。

它希望开放Ethio电信将使承运人——拥有4400万用户——更具竞争力和效率。

结束了国家垄断电信行业的一个关键组成部分是一个经济改革方案,总理艾哈迈德阿在2018年上台后宣布。

2021年,埃塞俄比亚也发布了一个温柔奖两个牌照私营电信运营商。

一个许可证被授予由肯尼亚的牵头的一个财团Safaricom,使其成为第一个私人电信公司经营超过1.1亿人口的国家。

但收购南非的MTN过于低,拒绝了。