The Ethiopian government has set February 2021 as the new deadline for completing the opening of the telecom market to competition through the partial privatization of the incumbent operator, Ethio Telecom and the award of two new telecom licenses. Eyob Tekalign, the Minister of Finance, said that the state has a timetable, from January to February, for both processes.

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