About Us

Brief historical review

 

Telecom service was introduced in Ethiopia by Emperor Menelik II in 1894 during the commencement of the telephone line installation from Harar to Addis Ababa. Then the inter-urban network was expanded in all other directions from the capital and many important centers in the Empire were interconnected by landlines to facilitate long-distance communications with the help of intermediate operators acting as verbal human repeaters.

 

Organizational reform

 

• 1890 :- Central Administration of Telephone and Telegraph System of Ethiopia
• 1907:- The central office of Post, Telegraph and Telephone (PTT) System of Ethiopia
• 1910 :- Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephone (PT&T) 
• 1952 :- The Imperial board Telecommunication of Ethiopia (IBTE)

Establishment of Ethio telecom

 

As a continuation of the 2005/06-2009/10 five-year plan and after concentrating its efforts on education, health and agriculture, the Ethiopian government decided to focus on the improvement of telecommunication services considering them as key lever in the development of Ethiopia. Ethio telecom was born on 29 November 2010, from this ambition of supporting the steady growth of our country.

(Recruited promising young Ethiopian to fill various senior positions and carried out and completed the Ethiopianization program in 1973)

• 1975 :- The provisional Military of Socialist Ethiopian Telecommunication Services
• 1996 :- Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC)
• 2010 :- Ethio telecom

 

Transition to Ethio telecom

 

Ethio telecom has got its current status since 29th November 2010 as a part of Ethiopia’s 2005/06 – 2009/10 GTP following the federal government’s decision to focus on improving telecom services, taking them as key to national development. Consequently, the country’s telecom infrastructure and services have been transformed to world-class standards to facilitate the development of the country with a great paradigm shift in the improvement of the sector.

Our services(products) :

Developer Portal(telebirr)

teleHub

teleGebeya