Airtel Uganda

Telecoms are known to shamelessly cannibalise each other's promotion slogans, only adding a few tweaks here and there. Not that we are judging them; the telco pricewars are a tough business and as they say all is fair in love and war. At the end... Read More

Have you ever needed to make that call so bad and then you realise you do not have airtime? To make it worse, you are in an area where you do not have access to airtime even if you wanted to. Or let's just say... Read More

Summary Airtel Uganda recently launched the Wingle; a 3G WiFi dongle by Huawei. Just imagine your USB dongle but with WiFi this time. The Wingle is a small portable and easy to set up device that can get up to 10 devices connected via WiFi. The... Read More

Remember when the Telecoms offered cheap dual-sim (Katochi) phones in a desperate attempt to lure mobile subscribers to their networks? Well, they are at it again, except this time it's with cheap smartphones. Airtel Uganda a month ago released an entry-level Android-powered smartphone dubbed Airtel... Read More

Airtel Uganda just launched a campaign dubbed Whatsapp, Tweet and Facebook (WTF!) --excuse the pun-- where customers can use the three social networks for an unlimited rate at a paltry UGX 500 (about $ 0.2) for a maximum of 24 hours. From the look of... Read More

Airtel Uganda has today hiked their data rates. The announcement came from their official Twitter where the Telecom advised their customers to dial its data USSD shortcode -- *175# -- to see the revised internet data bundles. Dear Customer, please be informed that effective today... Read More

It's fast approaching one month since I walked into the Airtel shop on Jinja Road to plug myself into a data pipe that Airtel says "will blow you away". This came after attending the Airtel 3.75G tweetup in town which was packed by high-tech savvy... Read More