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Safaricom M-Pesa receives Ethiopian mobile money license, ending state monopoly

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has issued a mobile money-service license to Safaricom M-Pesa Mobile Financial Service, it announced May 11. Previously, only Telebirr, part of the state-owned Ethio Telecom network, operated in that market.Kenya-based Safaricom was also the first company to break Ethio Telecom’s monopoly on Ethiopian mobile

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