By Our Reporter Hamilton Cloud Services (HCS), Uganda’s first local cloud service provider and a subsidiary of Hamilton Telecom, on Thursday, February 7th 2019, finalised an agreement to colocate their servers in Raxio Data Centre’s state-of-the-art, always-on data centre at the Kampala Industrial and Business Park, Namanve. Raxio announced its
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By Drake Nyamugabwa A new study has revealed that 55%of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in Uganda use mobile money platform. The study commissioned by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) with the main objective of establishing the current patterns of access, usage and challenges of PWDs to Information Communication and Technology
Read MoreChina Decries ‘Political Manipulations’ Behind Huawei Case In US
By AFP China on Tuesday decried the "political manipulations" behind the US case against Huawei as Washington indicted the tech giant's chief financial officer and levelled sweeping charges against the company. "For some time, the US has used state power to discredit and crack down on specific Chinese companies in
Read MoreBy REUTERS Kampala A Ugandan company has started using blockchain, the technology behind virtual currency Bitcoin, to certify shipments of coffee to try to meet growing demand from consumers for more information about where products have come from. Carico Café Connoisseur said the move could help to boost farmers’ incomes,
Read MoreThe Ugandan government has awarded Gemalto, in cooperation with local partner SCINTL, the contract for the supply of a Border Management System (BMS) including airport self-service eKiosks) at Entebbe International Airport, creating a faster and more convenient border-crossing experience for travelers and strengthening homeland security. The said e-Immigration solution uses
Read MoreLeading 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
Read MoreFintech, 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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreOn 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
Read MoreNew 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
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