Ethio telecom and Dashen Bank partnered to provide digital financial services which mainly target low income earners.
The partnership offers micro credit, overdraft, and micro saving services. The micro credit service which is named telebirr mela allows individuals, agents, and merchants to borrow and withdraw money for any transaction while the overdraft service under the name telebirr Endekisse allows individuals to borrow money when they are short of balance in their telebirr account, it was learnt. The micro saving service, telebir sanduq, is a saving service which is available with interest free and interest rate based micro saving services.