Safaricom goes live in Ethiopia second largest city

A Safaricom shop in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Safaricom Ethiopia has begun a large-scale customer pilot of its network in Dire Dawa, four months after it missed operational launch in the Horn of Africa nation.

The pilot in Ethiopia’s second biggest city after the capital Addis Ababa, with an estimated population of half a million, is part of the telco’s planned phased city-by-city roll-out ahead of the October national launch.