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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....

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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,...

Related Tags: i-tel, mtn, zain, uganda-telecom, warid--telecom, orange, three


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....

Related Tags: zte, solar-power, uganda-telecom


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....

Related Tags: monitise, paynet, mobile-banking, presence


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. ...

Related Tags: lake-victoria, ericsson, zain, gsm-association, security, life


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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