Asmara — The Eritrean telecommunications company, EriTel, has distributed forms as regards sale of shares in line with the national plan to privatize such businesses on the basis of sole proprietorship or shares.
Mr. Tesfasilasie Berhane, the Manager of the company, explained that it has been finalizing preparations for sale of shares, which opportunity would become claimable for nationals as of February 1.
According to the company's official website individual citizens can buy up to 50,000 shares, while businesses and Associations can purchase up to 500,000 shares, given 10 as the lowest permissible number of shares for sales.
The company further indicated that it has opened special accounts at the Housing and Commerce Bank, as well as the Commercial Bank of Eritrea so as to serve the purpose, and notified applicants that transactions are possible only through those accounts.
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Let us ignore everything else and look at the numbers. Now,there are a lot of question you should ask before you invest your money in anything, much less in an opaque government run telecom. What you are being asked is to pay $628.50/customer in a nation with a per capital income of $700/person. This is outrageous amount when you consider for example Verizon Wireless value per customer is $1,215 in a nation with per capital income of $48,300. If we just considers only numbers (which is a treble idea), you should not pay more than $17/customer, that is very, very generous valuation. my recombination is to RUN don't look back.
Verizon has 101.1 Million customers and it is valued $122.86 billion.