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so long as it casts an iota of uncertainty to the regime there can't be any movement forward. since the regime is made up of shameless conspirators on own people, they don't trust anything. letting people live in darkness by depriving them of information and feeding their disabling ideology known as revolutionary democracy the regime fantasizes to squeeze the ethiopian public forever. whereas even the most underdeveloped countries provide modern telecommunication services to their constituents, our nightmeres have made it a luxury to use email services in the ciber world while browsing to the websites they tend to hate is almost unthinkable. instead of providing people access to information our own leaders (may i say enemies) waste the hard earned resources of ours to run the liars (government media) whose cost of misinformation is incalculable. but enemies simply do not care for the resources of their 'adversaries'

this is to mean that the word 'liberalization' is not appropriate a term to describe the situation at tele. if anything, our robbers must have planned to create business for their cronies.

Someone else running the operations does not mean privatization! It simply means
we failed to run ETC efficiently and we need help from an out side contractor to run it for us.

Over hundred years since telecommunication technology was brought to the country, Ethiopia remains the lowest telehone per capita in the world thanks to tyranical regimes. The primary purose of the government to monopolize all internet and telephone access is for CONTROL. Yes, financial interest is there but the primary reason is to spy the public and restrict access and communication among people. TPLF is perhaps more stalinist than Joseph Stalin himself.

One of the definitions of libralization include the process by which certain business activities become more market driven. The fact that ETC is biding part of its operation to be performed by other agents to do the activity for itself does not create competion in the market. The selling price is determined by ETC, still the product is owned by ETC what is new now is ETC pays agents some fee for their activity on behalf of itself.It is not new even if you recall the fact that you can buy simcards from dealers in addis ababa these days. They are sometimes telling us old thing as new as if they are reforming the country while the fact is to the contrary. In my openion this sometimes may have an aditional cost adition effect to the consumers as more layer are added to the telecom market. The owner being the same still, it is an aditon of a retailer or a sub contractor to ETC. This is not a big deal. ETC is disappointing the country for its performance and policy makers should do more on this regard to change the fact that we are one of the first from the last in telecom expansion of services and quality in the world.

This is a good step forward and who ever has opened his/her eye, Kudos to him/her. It is about time that ETC gets some help.
Why can't we fire the heads of ETC and find someone with similar knowledge to the EAL leadership?

One of the reasons given not to privatize tele is the government wants the revenue for it self apparently to expand the service from the huge amount of profit that comes from this sector. But from this news it seem the government doesn't mind sharing the revenue it just does not want to share it with Ethiopians. I don't think there has been any where any government that has so much ill will to it's own kind as much as this one.

Not sure if this is the first step to liberalization (and as others pointed out, outsourcing management does not mean breaking the monopoly). Hopefully, the new management will do a good job (they cannot do any worse than the previous one so it is all gravy from here on out ;-))

"Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that has a state monopoly in the telecoms sector."

That statement say it all!!!

This is a great move from eprdf, finally the govt is handing over his big asset, telecom should be privatized

No matter what the privetization is carried out in any economic sectors while Woyane is on power,the people of Ethiopia are not benefited at all. It is just like," SIlecha kelkelo, Kelkelo silecha." The new Millioner s are the only people benefited from these schemes or programs what ever may be the name.

No private electronic mida, no private telephone service for nearly 80 million people? It is one big evidence that Weyanne is not your typical dictatorial regime. It is genocidal. Now, they are trying to push the NGOs out of the country. What does that tell you? They are genocidal. Every one make sure that you call your familier very often and check on them on a regular basis. Particularly, the onece who live in the countryside. Don't trust Weyannes at all. They are evils.