Safaricom, weighing up an offer for Ethiopia’s telecommunications business later this year, plans to take on debt to fund a joint bid by a consortium including parent Vodacom and two other entities.
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Orange, France’s biggest phone company, has picked BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley to advise on a proposed initial public offering of its Middle East and Africa business, sources say.
Orange, France’s dominant phone company, is starting preparations for a potential initial public offering of its Africa and Middle East unit, people familiar with the matter said.
Safaricom and parent Vodacom Group plan a joint bid for an Ethiopian telecommunications licence that they expect to cost as much as R15-billion.
Ethiopia may give up majority control over its telecommunications monopoly in a second phase of privatisation once it’s sold 49% of the company next year.
As part of an ambitious reform programme, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed plans to award telecommunications licences to two private operators next year, and sell a minority stake in Ethio Telecom.
Ethiopia plans to sell a minority stake in the state-owned phone monopoly and award telecommunications licences to two new operators in the first quarter of next year, the finance ministry said.
Orange is considering a bid for a minority stake in Ethiopia’s state-owned phone monopoly as Africa’s second most populous country prepares to welcome foreign telecommunications investors for the first time.
As Huawei’s battles in the US snare its founder’s daughter, a new front is opening up across the Atlantic – in France.
South Africa’s MTN Group and France’s Orange announced this week that they will bring “smart feature phones” to Africa costing as little as US$20. The phones will run an operating system called KaiOS – but what is that?