Leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has announced that it is investing 8 billion Egyptian Pounds ($400m US Dollars) in Egypt over the next three years. This is part of a major partnership with Telecom Egypt which includes network infrastructure and data centres. The investment was made during a signing ceremony
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Fintech, one of the leading enterprise information technology solutions and services providers, Thursday launched a new generation of smart point of sale (POS) devices that will increase efficiency in payments for retail customers. The POS devices will allows real time cash and cashless transactions across multiple platforms. Fintech who are the sole
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The Minister of State for Finance (Planning), Hon David Bahati, has revealed that government is set to introduce a Bill that will regulate digital currencies and pyramid schemes. “In October, Cabinet approved the National Payment System Bill. We intend to bring it to Parliament next month so that it caters for
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On 14th November, Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) with support from the Uganda Police Force, carried out a market surveillance operation at the Energy Centre on Market Street. UNBS says the objectives of the operation were; To identify specific businesses involved in the sale and distribution of substandard electrical products.
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New investors in telecommunications in Uganda will have to rent capacity from existing fibre optic cables, rather than lay their own to avoid duplication and try to lower internet costs in the country, the CEO of the industry regulator Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), told news agency Reuters. "We need infrastructure sharing,
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Video is driving the demand for data services as a key revenue generator for telecoms operators. At AfricaCom, the largest telecommunications event in Africa, global ICT giant Huawei highlighted the importance for carriers to focus on the end user experience and building a video ecosystem that will fully release new
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Land O'Lakes International Development, and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research announced the six winners of the Feed the Future Fall Armyworm Tech Prize at the AfricaCom conference in South Africa today. A Ugandan organization is one of the six winners. The prize,
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MTN Uganda Wednesday became the first telecom company in Uganda and in the MTN Group to grant access to third-party access to its Mobile Money Access Programming Interface (API). An Open API platform enables developers and programmers to get free access to MTN mobile money proprietary software platform. MTN Mobile Money is
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500 Ugandan villages across the country have been connected to the digital satellite television. This is in a bid to widen the digital migration coverage and also increase access to information and knowledge for the rural poor. The Shs10m (Shs37.5bn) project dubbed Access to Satellite TV for 10,000 African Villages, is
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Airtel Uganda has today launched Uganda’s first-ever data OTT packs that will enable subscribers to enjoy undisrupted connectivity by simply subscribing once and getting both data and OTT of the same validity. Data OTT packs combine data and OTT Tax by maintaining the same data volumes of the selected bundles and
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