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CBE Birr is the mobile money service of the state-owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), launched in December 2017. Customers use it through a USSD menu or through CBEBirr Plus, an internet-based app that offers the same operations as the USSD version, and the service runs on a network of agents and merchants. Unlike telebirr, which the telecom operator Ethio Telecom launched in May 2021, CBE Birr is bank-led; it topped Ethiopian mobile money in its first years until telebirr's customer base overtook the banks'. CBE reported about 30 million CBE Birr users in January 2025.
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