One thing we know is that a mobile money license was not included. This could be because the country-owned Ethiotel recently launched its own mobile money platform Telebirr. To be fair, in a country of 115 million people, a million may not be a lot to join a mobile money service. But it is interesting that between 2015 and 2020 the number of mobile money subscribers remained at about 1.5 million. Read more: Ethiopian Govt-owned Telebirr adds over 1m new mobile money users in 1 week

Source: The North Africa Journal June 02, 2021 05:26 UTC