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Safaricom Ethiopia Hits 14.7 Million Customers as Profitability Nears
Unverified — auto-generated summary, not yet reviewedMobile, Telecom & ConnectivityEthiopiaJul 31, 2026
Safaricom Ethiopia has reached 14.7 million customers and is projecting EBITDA profitability by 2027, marking a significant operational milestone in what is described as the continent's biggest single telecom market bet. The figures validate the scale of the Ethiopia market entry after years of investment.
Safaricom Ethiopia: 14.7 million customers is the number Vodacom bet its ZAR300 billion target on
Losses more than halved last year. Break-even is projected by March 2027. And now 14.7 million subscribers.
Each of those figures matters less on its own than as a point on a line — one that tells Vodacom whether its revised growth target is a real plan or an optimistic guess.
The trajectory is holding. That's not nothing in a market where every previous continental telecom bet at this scale has eventually disappointed someone.
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