INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background of the company

 CBE was legally established as a share company in 1963. In 1974, CBE merged with the
privately owned Addis Ababa Bank. It has more than 1160 branches stretched across the
country.

 The leading African bank with assets of 384.6 billion Birr as on June 30th 2016.

 Currently CBE has more than 13.3 million account holders and the number of Mobile
and Internet Banking users also reached more than 1,352,000(68% active users).

 Active ATM card holders reached more than 3 million (61% active users). It has strong
correspondent relationship with more than 50 renowned foreign banks like Commers
Bank A.G., Royal Bank of Canada, City Bank, HSBC Bank.
 Pioneer to introduce Western Union Money Transfer Services in Ethiopia early 1990s
and currently working with other 20 money transfer agents like Money Gram, Atlantic
International (Bole), Xpress Money...

 Debebre Brihan Branch is one of them under East Addis Ababa District. The study will
be undertaken in Debre Brihan Town .Debre Brihan Town is found in Amhara Regional
State, the capital of North shoe Zone which is located130 km away from Addis Ababa,
the capital of Ethiopia.

 Commercial Bank of Debre Brhan Branch was established in1967 which is located
West of zenbaba Hotel, South of Eva Hotel, North of Amahara Saving Credit
Association and 600 meters away from Haile Mariam Mamo School towards East. the
branch gives different services to the people like local and foreign currency transfers,
interest free banking, loan facilities deposit mobilization and other financial services
with 12 women and 46 men employees.
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Part-Two
2. Theoretical aspects of Telecommunication, The Internet and
The Wireless Revolution
2.1. Telecommunications, And Networking in today’s Business World
 If you run or work in a business, you can’t do without networks. You need to
communicate rapidly with your customers, suppliers, and employees.
 Today, however, you and your employees use computers and e-mail, the Internet,
cell phones, and mobile computers connected to wireless networks for this purpose.
Networking and the Internet are now nearly synonymous with doing business.
 Telecommunications- Exchange of information in any form (voice, data, text, images,
audio, video) over networks
2.2. Networking and Communication Trends
 Firms in the past used two fundamentally different types of networks: telephone
networks and computer networks.
 Telephone networks historically handled voice communication, and computer
networks handled data traffic. Telephone networks were built by telephone companies
throughout the twentieth century using voice transmission technologies .
 Computer networks were originally built by computer companies seeking to transmit
data between computers in different locations.
 Computer networks have expanded to include Internet telephone and limited video
services. Increasingly, all of these voice, video, and data communications are based on
Internet technology.
 Both voice and data communication networks have also become more powerful
(faster), more portable (smaller and mobile), and less expensive.
 Increasingly, voice and data communication, as well as Internet access, are taking
place over broadband wireless platforms, such as cell phones, mobile handheld
devices, and PCs in wireless networks.