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The
Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has implemented various
telecom service expansion projects during the 1998 Ethiopian Fiscal Year (EFY),
which are believed to be compatible with the interests of customers and the
development direction of the government.
Accordingly, fixed telephone exchange capacity has reached 974,193 during
the stated period against 857,347 in 1997 E.F.Y. witnessing a 20% growth
while the number of subscribers also raised to 740,250 in 1998 E.F.Y.
compared to 610,347 in 1997 E.F.Y. that resulted in an increment of 21
percent.
As part
of expanding basic telephone services particularly in the rural parts of the
country, ETC has managed to replace analogue exchanges with fully digital
automatic exchanges raising the later to 449 in 1998 E.F.Y. against 273 in
1997 E.F.Y., showing a 64 percent increment.
The
Corporation has also finalized mobile network expansion projects with a
capacity of 350,000 and 625,000 lines, which are launched during the 1997
budget year together with the execution of additional mobile expansion
project having the network capacity of 175,000 lines in various parts of the
country.
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