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The Ethiopia Communications Authority (ECA) has invited telecom companies to submit their interest for the acquisition of two nationwide full-service telecommunications licenses.<\/p>\n

The initial license term will be 15 or more years with the possibility of renewal, said ECA, the regulator of the communications sector, in a statement sent to FBC today.<\/p>\n

Interested parties are required to meet or exceed specified population and geographic coverage targets as well as commit to reasonable tariffs, universal accessibility, and teledensity targets, it said.<\/p>\n

The telecommunications service licenses will be technology-neutral and there will be a range of spectrum available across multiple frequency bands, it added.<\/p>\n

Both new and existing licensees will be expected to enter into infrastructure and facilities sharing arrangements in order to achieve rapid and cost-efficient network deployment.<\/p>\n

The licenses will be awarded via a competitive evaluation process, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

The authority invited telecommunications companies with proven experience, large-scale network deployment, operation, and service provisioning to register their interest to participate in the award process.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, interested parties are required to submit their expression until June 22, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ethiopia Communications Authority (ECA) has invited telecom companies to submit their interest for the acquisition of two nationwide full-service telecommunications licenses. The initial license term will be 15 or more years with the possibility of renewal, said ECA, the regulator of the communications sector, in a statement sent to FBC today. Interested parties are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":15861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-embassy-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/webisite_logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16034,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions\/16034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}