The Ethiopian regulator has announced to suspend the sale of the country's second mobile phone license.Orange was a candidate but that should not impact the operator who saw his plans.

Ethiopia opens up other operators to offer mobile telecommunications networks.The African country with its 110 million inhabitants is growing and needs to acquire high -performance mobile networks and also competition.

Two licenses are thus put up for sale.The first was awarded to Safaricom, a Kenyan operator, but the second still awaited a buyer and following different requests, the Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA), the Ethiopian telecom regulatory authority, decided to postpone the process ofSale at later.

Orange is known for its position in Africa and the historic operator wanted to launch into Ethiopia but the conditions not being completely met to position itself properly, Orange had decided to no longer position itself on this second license.This decision should therefore not impact its plans.

It must be said that Orange, who launched Orange Money in Africa, found himself upset in his plans.The operator cannot launch his monetary service in Ethiopia, the desire to set up there was weaker.

However, Orange would rather lean for another solution to be present in the country.Indeed, he could participate in Ethio, the national operator.