Telecoms

The role of entrepreneurship and small businesses in driving economies is widely acknowledged and understood; in 2016, roughly half of all formal jobs worldwide were created by SMEs according to data from the World Bank. Entrepreneurs and SMEs, however, still face a number of challenges,... Read More

Following NIRA's provision of 50 biometric card readers to assist in the process of verifying citizen’s National I.D during SIM card replacement, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has issued a set of guidelines on the replacement and swapping of SIM cards to the telecom operators and... Read More

The past couple of weeks treated mobile phone owners to security tension, in the wake of rampant crimes committed over unregistered numbers. After coming to an agreement, the regulatory bodies in NIRA and UCC have provided telecos with the equipment to verify SIM card ownership... Read More

The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has lifted a two-week ban on the sale and swapping of SIM cards granted that certain conditions are met. The new stringent measures are considered a temporary solution at the moment. UCC is still in the process of building an API... Read More

In the wake of rampant crime within the country over mobile phones, and networking devices, we have seen the public questioning the operation of government bodies such as NIRA and UCC, plus the telecom companies that had secured personal data of mobile phone numbers and... Read More

Are you looking to acquaint yourself with a new smartphone and Airtel Uganda SIM card but only wish to cover it up with in a single round? The list to choose from might be wide and rather complicated to comprehend that you may have to... Read More

A whopping 4 billion people around the world are still offline. That means they have never sent an email, tweeted, Whatsapped or accessed Facebook. But Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX isn't really concerned about bringing everyone online. That's just a means to... Read More

Safaricom Home broadband users have something to celebrate this new month. Two things actually since the 90 days of January are gone. Safaricom is introducing two new bundles that aim at disrupt the now very competitive mobile data scene in the country. The two bundles,... Read More

The data wars are hotting up! Africell Uganda has taken a leaf from Airtel and MTN and revised their daily data bundles. And with that, we add to the hashtags as well. To counter Airtel's #DataBlastaForEveryone and MTN's #SurfMore, Africell's this time around is #DontBeCheated.... Read More