Internet and social media services have been fully restored, ICT State minister of Uganda Ogwang Ogwang has just announced. It was switched off on the eve of the elections held on January 14, and Ugandans have been using Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to get around the blockage since. “We apologize for the inconveniences caused, but...
MTN Uganda has launched its first fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services for home users, adding to its existing range of business fibre services. Fibre access is available in selected areas of Kampala and other main cities. While the MTN website has still to confirm pricing, a report from Techjaja says that a 10Mbps service for home users will cost UGX179,000...
Uganda could default on debt repayments and other international obligations resulting from the internet shutdown that affected over 16 million users. This is according to Ministry of Finance Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury Patrick Ochailap. On 13 January 2021 the Ugandan government shut down the internet and social media platforms on the eve...
While authorities in Uganda have restored internet connectivity five days after it was shut down across the country ahead of the general elections, digital rights organisation NetBlocks estimates the cost of the downtime to digital services (including mobile money) could be in the region of US$9-million. The internet was restored 18 January after President Yoweri...
Facebook has banned accounts linked to Ugandan government officials ahead of the country’s general elections scheduled for Thursday 14 January 2020, and cited Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB), including posting false information and duplicating posts. The run up to the election has lit up social media, with Ugandans expressing their frustration over alleged rights abuses at...
Telecom and Internet service providers have registered an increase in demand for data services in the last quarter of 2020, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has said. At least 20 million Internet subscriptions – nearly 50 per cent of the Ugandan population, is connected to broadband, the latest Communications market performance report of quarter three indicates....
“Airtel Uganda thanks the Government of Uganda and the Uganda Communications Commission for its cooperation on this important process,” the telco said in an official statement. Airtel Uganda, a subsidiary of Airtel Africa, said it has been issued a National Telecom Operator (NTO) license by paying $74.6 million which includes a VAT amount of $11.4 million. The new...
Uganda’s President Museveni has inaugurated the country’s fourth national fibre-optic network rollout project. The deployment of the new infrastructure covering the West Nile and Karamoja regions was begun in May 2019 and construction was completed in March this year. 1,590km of fibre network has been installed by Huawei under the supervision of the Uganda National...
Ugandan cellco Airtel says it has no money to meet licence payments and has requested the Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) for more time to pay. A report from Eagle Online says that Airtel is blaming the COVID-19 pandemic for its cash-flow problems. A UCC source is quoted as saying: ‘They wrote to us indicating that since the outbreak...
Parliament has recommended that government clears a Shs45.6b debt that Uganda Telecom (UTL) holds with the Eastern and Southern Trade and Development Bank currently known as TDB. The debt is a condition for the acquisition of a $650m (Shs2.4 trillion) loan from the same bank. Part of the detailed report released by the Parliamentary Budget...
