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.
Read MoreAirtel Uganda has responded to subscribers’ questions on the controversial data OTT packs launched on November 12, 2018. In a statement, Airtel said Uganda’s first-ever data OTT packs will ‘enable subscribers to enjoy undisrupted connectivity by simply subscribing once and getting both data and OTT of the same validity’. Data
Read MoreOver 700 members of the private sector have benefited from dfcu Banks Business Accelerator Program supporting the Oil & Gas local content agenda. The Oil & Gas local content skilling program was launched in June 2018 targeting multiple sectors that can potentially take up opportunities in the sector. Discussions broadly
Read MoreMTN 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
Read MoreA court in Egypt has sentenced Mohamed Aboutrika, one of the country's football legends, to one year in prison for tax evasion with an option to pay a fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,100; £860) to have the sentence suspended. Aboutrika, who has lived in exile in Qatar since 2013,
Read MoreUganda Police Force (UPF) earned Shs2.5bn from firearms licensing and fire arms rental fees in the 2017/2018 financial year. The Non Tax Revenue collections are contained in the quarterly budget performance report that Police was meant to present before the Committee of Defence and Internal Affairs of Parliament today. The
Read More500 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,
Read MoreDebt-Distressed African Countries Again Look To International Monetary Fund
By Akani Chauke By the International Monetary Fund (IMF’s) own admission, there are circumstances where African governments’ debt levels are so high they become unsustainable, such that the scheduled debt service exceeds the capacity of the member to service it. This rings true for a number of countries in the
Read MoreA section of Ugandans have lashed out at Democratic Party President General, Nobert Mao, after he threatened to treat, Deo Njoki as a deserter if he pushes ahead with plans to back out of the LCV Busia Local Government election for a job at Uganda Human Rights Commission. This
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