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Latest Telecoms News from Uganda
Expanding Mobile Phone Information Service for Rural Famers
The Grameen Foundation is to expand its Community Knowledge Worker (CKW) initiative in Uganda, supported by a $4.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation....
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MTN Uganda Secures Funding for Network Expansion
MTN's Ugandan subsidiary has raised US$100 million in debt to fund the expansion of its network....
Orange Uganda Hands Network Management to Alcatel-Lucent
Orange Uganda has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build, operate and manage the Orange Uganda mobile network, by providing technical support, repair, field maintenance and program management services. ...
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Uganda Rejects Call to Lower Mobile Phone Sales Tax
Uganda's politicians have voted down a proposal to scrap a sales tax on mobile phones following concerns from the government that it needs the revenues the taxes generate....
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Zain Expands Mobile Banking Service
Zain has announced an upgrade to its mobile banking service, Zap to enable customers to receive money from any bank account around the world and send money to any bank in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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Sixth Network to Launch in Uganda
Uganda's sixth mobile network is expecting to launch its network tomorrow (Tuesday) with coverage in 38 towns,...
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Uganda Telecom Launches Solar Powered Mobile Phone
Uganda Telecom says that it has secured the exclusive rights to launch a ZTE supplied solar-powered mobile phone in the country....
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Monitise Signs Mobile Banking Partnership in East Africa
Mobile banking service provider, Monitise says that it is extending its business further into Africa and the Middle East with a joint venture with Paynet, an electronics payment company....
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Improving Mobile Phone Coverage Across Lake Victoria
Mobile phone coverage across Africa's Lake Victoria is to be expanded in a joint venture between Zain, and Ericsson, in an initiative coordinated by the GSM Association. ...
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East Africa's telecoms competition laboratory spurs fast growth
The top mobile markets in East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands are amongst the most liberalised on the continent. The top three markets are Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and they all have about 10 million subscribers....
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