Days after pledging to expand internet, Ethiopia’s govt shuts it off

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By Jake BrightJun 14, 2019, 5:45 pm119 pts
Days after Ethiopian ICT officials made public pledges to improve net access, the government began playing on-again, off-again with the internet—shutting it down (almost completely) to coincide with the country’s national exams. Data provided to TechCrunch from Oracle’s Internet Intelligence confirmed…

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