Airtel Uganda Managing Director, Anwar Soussa has quit the telecom firm under unclear circumstances. But the company said his quitting is as a result of his personal decision to take up a new and exciting opportunity outside Airtel. Soussa joined Airtel Uganda in June 2016, replacing Tom Gutjahr, who left
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A new version of Bitcoin has been mined for the first time in the crypto-currency's history. Bitcoin Cash is the result of months of debate and development over how the currency would continue to evolve. Fears of large swings in the value of Bitcoin have so far not been realised
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Facebook has shut down two artificial intelligences that appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood. According to the Independent, a UK based newspaper, t he two chatbots came to create their own changes to English that made it easier for them to work
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Nokia continued to be hit by a decline in its core networks sector in the second quarter with almost flat sales, and cautioned Thursday that a weakening in networks would be greater than previously expected, the AP reports. The Finland-based networks company, however, managed to trim net loss in the
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MTN Uganda Foundation on Tuesday launched a partnership with SOS Children’s Villages, an international child care organization in Uganda that will see the telecom company inject Shs330m in SOS Uganda’s Retention for Completion project. The Retention for Completion project was developed by SOS Children’s Villages. Its aim is to increase
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Uganda's giant telecommunications network, MTN Uganda has revised its internet bundles effective 14th July , 2017. The changes have mainly been effected in volumes of the MTN’s new social bundles, commonly known as the MTN Swift and MTN WTF. [caption id="attachment_2599" align="aligncenter" width="1086"] Revised Social Bundle Volumes[/caption] This comes after a
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Microsoft Has Ended Support For Its Windows 8 Smartphones The US tech giant will now focus on other segments, amid ongoing speculation about its strategy for mobile. Users of Windows-powered phones – which have failed badly against rivals from Apple and Google Android – were invited to upgrade to its
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Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), the regulator of Uganda’s telecoms sector has asked MTN Uganda to explain its recent changes in pricing. This is after a number of MTN subscribers petitioned the regulator over what they termed as unclear and exorbitant changes. In a letter dated Jul7, 2017, UCC Executive Director,
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It’s been eight years since MTN launched MTN Mobile Money the life changing financial service. Having started small in 2009 as a means to remit funds, buy airtime or bundles, the financial platform has since evolved to bill payment, saving & borrowing, donations, depositing/withdrawing from the bank as well as
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Members of Parliament on the Committee on Science and Technology have explained why the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill 2012 should be passed into law as soon as possible. This is contained in a report on the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill 2012 commonly referred to as GMO (Genetically Modified
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