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There are only 300 broadband internet subscribers in Ethiopia

Posted on , Updated on by Elias Kifle

By Beles

According to Internet Worlds Statistics, Internet usage in Ethiopia is the lowest in Africa and the world.

While countries in Africa and around the world enjoy unprecedented growth in information technology (IT) and telecoms growth and reaping the benefits, Ethiopians are thrown in to dark ages by a regime that is terrified of free flow of information between the people of the country.

In this competitive world the actions of the Meles Zenawi’s regime is arresting the development of generation of Ethiopians by depriving them the necessary tools to succeed in the 21st century.

In Somalia, a country that has no functioning goverment, Internet usage is higher than in Ethiopia.

The person who is in charge of suppressing the growth of information technology in Ethiopia is DebreTsion GebreMichael, chairman of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, who is Meles Zenawi’s right hand man and a member of the ruling Tigray People Liberation Front (Woyanne).

An illiterate care of the ruling Woyanne, DebreTsion’s primary duty as the head of ETC is to make sure that the people of Ethiopia have as little access as possible to information technology such as the Internet.

Greenland 92.3%
Netherlands 90.1%
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Morocco 21.3%
South Africa 11.6%
Zimbabwe 10.9
Nigeria 10%
Egypt 8.6%
Sudan 3.7%
Kenya 3.0%
Equatorial Guinea 1.3%
Somalia 1.0%
Mali 0.8%
Ethiopia 0.4%

Source: Internet World Stats

(Edited by Elias Kifle)

4 thoughts on “There are only 300 broadband internet subscribers in Ethiopia”

  1. ዓርብ ኅዳር 26 ቀን 2001 ዓ.ም. December 05, 2008)፦ ዝነኛው ድምጻዊ ቴዎድሮስ ካሳሁን (ቴዲ አፍሮ) ዛሬ በዋለው ችሎት ስድስት ዓመት እስራትና 18 ሺህ ብር ቅጣት ተፈረደበት።

    ዳኛው ፍርዳቸውን ከመስጠታቸው በፊት ለቴዲ አፍሮ “ፍርድ ቤቱን እንደፈለክ የምትደንስበት አይደለም” በማለት ባለፈው ሰኞ ‘ቴዲ እግዚያብሔር ይፈርዳል’ በማለቱ መበሳጨታቸውን የገለጹ ሲሆን፣ ቴዲ አፍሮ ዛሬም ከችሎቱ ሲወጣ “አይ ፊል ፍሪ” በማለት ሲጮህ መሰማቱን ለመረዳት ችለናል።

  3. This is sad stats! Ethiopia will never make any progress absent the privatization of the sector. And an independent US FCC like regulatory commision maned by independent technology and business savvy experts. The sector should be governed outside of any political influence or persuation following acceptable international rules. Mr. Melese, this will be a block spot on your watch you can not explain away. This will hvae heavy and negative coast to the whole country and generation.

    What is needed is clean slate. They whole sector can not be patched. It must be gutted out and rebuilt form the base on up. All the incompetent burocrats must be let go. Accountablity and accepting failure shows maturity.

  4. Yes, may be broadband is not the number one issue but the sad fact is, even the anti-Ethiopian sociopath Melses himself said some years back so billions of dollars are beind thrown to Chinese companies and we do not know what they are doing with the money together with government and some tell corrupt yes men

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