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Corruption in the Telecommunications Sector in Ethiopia: A Preliminary Overview 337
Figure 8.3 Growth in Mobile Telephone Subscribers in Ethiopia, 1999–2008
3,000
subscribers, thousands
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Source: BuddeComm 2009a. 7
Figure 8.4 Regional Comparison of Telephone Penetration Rates, Ethiopia and
Selected Countries, 2009
50
45
40
35
percent
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Kenya
Sudan
Somalia Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia
mobile Internet user fixed line
Source: BuddeComm 2009b.
The reported data do not include details of loan repayments associated
with recent infrastructure investments. Such annual repayments, set to
start three years after the start of the 2006 supply contract, are estimated
to be of the same order as current total annual income. The ETC has
historically experienced severe problems in revenue collection for its
fixed-line services (BuddeComm 2009a).