The activities that have been underway to develop infrastructural networks across the country are paying off.
The public, including farmers, are benefiting from access to all-weather roads and cell phone services.
Over the last couple of years, in particular, the government has focused on building roads and expanding mobile phone services; thus significantly contributing to the economic development of the country.
The maintenance, rehabilitation, upgrading, and construction of over 136,000kms new asphalt roads have been carried out with more than 300 billion birr during the last few years.
The entire road network in the country, which was only 26,500kms in 1998, has jumped over 120,000kms because of the development activities that were undertaken by the government.
It took about 7 hours to reach an all-weather road in 1998, but today it only takes a little over one hour.
According to the Ethio-telecom Corporate Communications Officer, Abdurahim Ahmed, the telecom industry in Ethiopia has come through more than 124 years of operation; but the modernization and technical innovations conducted over the last ten years clearly stand out.
The number of cell phone owners in the country was only 6.2 million in 2010, it is now 64 million, with 4G technology for Addis Ababa and 3G for other regions.
College of Finance Management and Development Deputy Director at Civil Service University Dr Kassa Teshager said the government is expending a huge amount of money on road construction; but also said more is desired in terms of ascertaining road quality control and accessibility to unreached areas.
