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Telebirr
Telebirr () is a mobile money service developed by Huawei that is owned and was launched by Ethio telecom, the state owned telecommunication and Internet service provider in Ethiopia. It took five months for Huawei to develop the end-to-end service. It facilitates the delivery of cashless transactions.{{Cite web, last=Yewondwossen, first=Muluken, date=19 April 2021, title=Telebirr to launch in the coming weeks, url=https://www.capitalethiopia.com/featured/telebirr-to-launch-in-the-coming-weeks/, url-status=live, access-date=12 May 2021, website=www.capitalethiopia.com The platform deployed currently has the capacity of processing up to 100 transactions per second (TPS) and can be scaled up to 1000 TPS in the future according to Huawei. The service is accessible via SMS, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD, and smartphone applications. Telebirr works in five languages. Registration Though the service is fully accessible for any customer of Ethio telecom, the users nee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethio Telecom
Ethio telecom (), previously known as the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (, ETC), is an Ethiopian telecommunication company serving as the major internet and telephone service provider. Ethio telecom is owned by the Ethiopian government and maintains a monopoly over all telecommunication services in Ethiopia. Based in Addis Ababa, it is one of the "Big-5" group of state owned corporations in Ethiopia, along with Ethiopian Airlines, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Ethiopian Insurance Corporation, and the Ethiopian Shipping Lines. Ethio telecom was managed, on a management contract arrangement from 2010 to 2013, by France Télécom, and was required to comply with Ethiopian government orders. The government said it outsourced the management as ETC was not able to meet the demands of the fast-growing country. It also said that telecommunications services would not be privatized, at least not in the near future. Ethio telecom generates a revenue of over US$300 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
