Over three quarters (85.9%) of the household heads received phone calls related to agriculture. Short message service (SMS) was poorly used. It is concluded that mobile phones are playing an important role as an informational medium. Therefore, the Ministry of Agriculture in Ethiopia needs to ...
Andrew Li manager at sales department of Tecno Ethiopia who was at the May 13th promotional tour explains how the firm can afford to provide a relative cheap price for a modern Smartphone. "Camon CX is our best Smartphone cell phone in Ethiopia; we give customers very fair prices, partly be...
Kenya-based Safaricom was also the first company to break Ethio Telecom’s monopoly on Ethiopian mobile phone service in October, through its Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia subsidiary. The NBE introduced legislation into the Parliamentary Assembly earlier in 2022 to make the private service possible...
Ethiopia has a mobile phone penetration rate of 60%, with approximately77 million connections. Despite challenges such as economic constraints and a monopolistic telecom sector, there is significant growth potential. The Ethiopian government’s efforts to liberalize the telecom market and improve infrastru...
The Kenya-based company already has 3 million mobile phone users in Ethiopia and plans to make it the 10th country where the payment service will be available. 7374 Podcast Africa: The next hub for Bitcoin, crypto adoption and venture capital?
Amharic Mobiles - Made in Ethiopia: While the Mobile Phone Has Been Revolutionising Life Elsewhere on the Continent, Its Use Had Been Limited in Ethiopia Because No One Had Made an Amharic-Language Handset. That Has All Changed Thanks to the Determination of a Group of Tech-Savvy Individuals ...
It is estimated that the majority of Ethiopia's 50 million plus mobile phone users browse webpages largely or exclusively through their mobile handsets. Earlier on Monday, Addis Ababa witnessed demonstrations in various parts of the city, as demonstrators were angry at reports of killings, looting...
It's a ubiquitous mobile phone found in all the major cities in Ethiopia and even in rural areas favored for its relative affordability and sturdiness. It is made by Chinese mobile phone manufacturer TECNO.
China-based mobile phone manufacturer, Tecno Telecom Limited, exclusively does business in Africa. Last year, the company released the first ‘made in Ethiopia’ smartphone. Tecno vice president, Arif Chowdhury was in Nairobi recently and told How we made it in Africa’sDinfin M...
Foryears,ChinesebrandTranssionhasbeenadominantplayerintheAfricanmobilephonemarket,withitsproductsappearinginnearlyeveryotherhandsetsoldinplaceslikeNigeria,Ghana,andEthiopia. However, thecompany'sfutureintheregionnow appearsuncertain. Attheendof2022,Transsionreportedadeclineinbothrevenueandprofits,anditsstockpriceonth...