THIS WEEK: MTN Uganda wins DIAA Awards  MTN Uganda took home five prizes at the Digital Impact Awards Africa (DIAA) 2017 awards held at the Kampala Serena Hotel recently. The awards cemented MTN Uganda’s position as the number one telecommunications company in Uganda. The accolades that MTN Uganda scooped are; …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Airtel Uganda, Uganda’s second largest telecom firm has today launched its 4GLTE mobile telecommunications technology in the presence of Information and Communications Minister, Frank Tumwebaze and Uganda Communication Commission Director for Corporate Affairs, Fred Otunnu. Speaking at the launch in Kampala, the company’s Managing Director, …

Anwar Soussa, who supervised the record performance, quit the telecom company Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Telecom service provider, Airtel Uganda, ended the 2016 financial year with 85.6% growth in net profit to Shs 160.45bn on the back of improved uptake of mobile money, value added services and data. …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE |  Pan-African telecoms group, Liquid, a subsidiary of Econet Global has completed 100G upgrades to key routes on the East African fibre ring, top officials told journalists on Sept. 05. Officials were speaking on the sidelines of a telecom’s workshop ‘Capacity Africa 2017 at Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Airtel Uganda has announced the planned departure of their managing director Anwar Soussa in a notice shared on Aug. 09. According to the notice, Soussa, who took up this role in June last year, is leaving as a result of a personal decision to take …

Experts say the interest rates are very high Kampala, Uganda |Isaac Khisa| Micro-credit is fast becoming a darling to millions of Uganda’s population following the rollout of new credit windows between financial institutions and telecom firms. But financial experts are worried that the new products may not create as much …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT REPORTER| MTN Uganda has announced that its integrated marketing and communication function will be taken over by TBWA Uganda with effect from July 1, 2017. MTN said the decision was made public “following successful completion of a transition process from its former agency Metropolitan Republic. In …

A man who was arrested with SIM-cards he was using to intercept  international calls and receiving them as local calls, has been sentenced to one year in Luzira Prison for electronic fraud. Geoffrey Kasule was on Friday arraigned before the newly created  Standards, Utilities and Wildlife  court,  and he pleaded guilty …

  Uganda’s banking industry has been announced best in external corporate communications aimed at enhancing the image of companies, in their pursuit for business growth. Banking is ranked number one ahead of six other industries whose external corporate communications has been measured and evaluated in the first Corporate Publicity Index …

It’s coming to year since Wim Vanhelleputte became Chief Executive Officer of MTN Uganda.  He spoke to The Independent’s Julius Businge about his experience so far and his plans for MTN operations.  What has been your experience so far since you were appointed to head MTN Uganda? The experience has …