Telecoms

I have been in a situation where I am completely down on MBs and I am in need of a fix. This is where Airtel Uganda comes in handy. They always offer 20MBs free every beginning of the month. You will need to have spent... Read More

Carrying cash and coins all around is a hustle to some people. Walking around with a wallet can be inconveniencing and an unnecessary load. Airtel Uganda is following in the footsteps of MTN by introducing Airtel Money Pay. With this, merchants will be able to... Read More

Safaricom will start a joint venture with Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights to M-Pesa mobile financial services platform from Britain’s Vodafone, Safaricom’s CEO said on Thursday. The $13.4 million (Sh1.3 billion) deal will let both purchasers make significant savings in royalties paid to... Read More

It's fairly easy to understand what piped-water is because, well, it's water. Even though you might not really understand how the utility company cleans water and pumps to your house, the basics are obvious to understand. There's a source of water which is usually a... Read More

The hope for a truly cashless economy regained new fuel on Tuesday when MTN Uganda, a leading telecom company officially launched Momo Pay, a new electronic system of payment at Shoprite supermarket. The “Everywhere you go” telecom, which has over half the mobile money subscribers in... Read More

Africell Uganda is among the top three telecoms in Uganda in terms of subscriber base (as of September 2018) coming in the third position with 2.1 million subscribers. The first two positions are occupied my usual suspects MTN Uganda (10.7 million subscribers) and Airtel Uganda... Read More

In the past few years, Facebook has embarked on a mission to map the world's population using artificial intelligence to comb through satellite imagery for cues. The project already released the mapping of 22 countries and now the mapping of the location of the entire... Read More

Airtel wants to push the recently announced countrywide 4G availability a notch higher. The top executives at Airtel had a meeting with the President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Museveni and requested the him to support their quest for additional spectrum. The smartphone network... Read More

As previously reported, MTN Uganda has been in talks with the Government to sell a stake to NSSF. As of today, the MTN Group CEO Rob Shutter has confirmed that MTN Uganda is ready to give 20% of its stake to Ugandans. This will bring... Read More