Foreign investor interest in Ethiopia's telecoms sector is cooling, sector experts and those with knowledge of the licencing process say, pointing to a bumpy first two years operating in the country for Safaricom, the only company so far granted a licence to compete with state-owned Ethio Telecom.
Telecoms were once seen as the big prize of a drive to liberalise the economy of Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country with around 120 million people, launched after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took power in 2018.
