We deploy many research projects in Ethiopia, and the situation has always been murky. For example, it has been long outlawed to provide calling services for ot

We deploy many research projects in Ethiopia, and the situation has always been murky. For example, it has been long outlawed to provide calling services for others over VOIP. So, if you run an internet café, and provide a calling service charging people, you faced jail. Private use of internet has been mostly unmonitored so far---but far too many people are now using their home internet for calling other people it appears. Given its very big diaspora population, communication is a very lucrative business in Ethiopia, and the government has made it clear in the past that the monopoly is going to continue this way because "it is one of the major sources of funds for development". This sounds like the next step in that approach.