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In recent years the government has increased sales taxes on telecom companies to 30 percent from 20 percent and a profit tax to 30 percent from 15 percent.
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- Thursday 11 August 2011
August 10, 2011 (JUBA) - South Sudan on Wednesday announced that it has been assigned ’.ss’ as its internet domain code and ’SSD’ as the alpha-3 numeric code.
The undersecretary of the ministry of telecommunications and postal services (...)
- Monday 1 April 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 31, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - A recently released report has indicated that the Ethiopian government is using a controversial spyware software called FinSpy to monitor the political activities of opposition groups (...)
- Tuesday 12 February 2013
February 9, 2013 (BOR) - South Sudan has begun a process of registering all telephone subscriber identity module (SIM) cards in order to track those responsible for issuing threats and conducting criminal activity using mobile phones. (...)
- Tuesday 19 March 2013
March 18, 2013 (PARIS) - The website of Qatar-based news organisation Al Jazeera has been blocked in Ethiopia, raising questions over the country’s commitment to press freedom, under the new leadership of prime minister.
According to (...)
- Saturday 4 February 2006
Feb 4, 2006 (JOHANNESBURG) — A $200m undersea cable promising a massive improvement in the quality and cost of African telecommunications will go live only by the end of next year, or a year later than hoped.
According to the (...)
- Friday 6 July 2012
Reporters Without Borders / Reporters sans frontières
Correction and update / Erratum et actualisation
06.07.2012
ETHIOPIA
Although still at draft stage, new telecoms rules give cause for concern
Reporters Without Borders wishes (...)
- Monday 23 July 2012
July 22, 2012 (JUBA) - Mobile phone giant Ericsson last week announced its response unit has entered into partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide vital communication services to relief workers in South (...)
- Saturday 10 March 2007
March 9, 2007 (PARIS) — Alcatel-Lucent said it has won an order from East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), a consortium of telecoms operators, to lay an optical submarine cable network spanning 10,0000 km and linking eight African (...)
- Tuesday 22 March 2011
March 21, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The government of South Sudan (GoSS) notified telecom companies that it will temporarily suspend their work while they issue new regulations governing their operations in the region that is set to become (...)
- Monday 18 February 2013
February 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir met on Wednesday with several members of Zain Telecom’s board of directors for discussions that focused on difficulties facing their investments in the country. (...)
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