Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Airtel Africa, a telecommunications service provider announced a ground-breaking expansion of its service portfolio in collaboration with Cisco. The strategic partnership aims to empower businesses to seamlessly embark on their digital transformation journey by offering Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions across various service platforms. In today’s fast-paced …
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UCC AT 25: How shall we pay for our more connected life?
COMMENT | DAVID BIRUNGI | This year marks 25 years since the reforms that have progressively transformed the communications sector in this country. We join in celebrating the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) that has presided over most of these reforms – some bad, most of them transformative. In 1989 when …
Read More »Infobip enhance customer purchase journeys on WhatsApp
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Infobip, a global leader in cloud communications, has unveiled a new capability that allows businesses to design and execute complete customer purchase journeys within WhatsApp. This innovative approach leverages the latest functionalities of the WhatsApp Business Platform, enabling businesses to facilitate a range of tasks …
Read More »Kabale University launches digital education with support from Swiss project
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabale University in the Southwestern Ugandan District of Kabale is one of the universities in Africa to benefit from a Swiss-funded project designed to enhance digital learning. The project is under a partnership with Switzerland-based Ecole Polythenique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) and Morocco-based Universite …
Read More »Chinese firm MiOne unveils locally assembled smartphones
The new U1 and Joy 9 smartphones are said to be `high-quality and pocket-friendly’ MBALE, UGANDA | AGENCIES | Chinese phone manufacturer MiOne has released two new smartphones, the U1 and Joy 9, assembled in Uganda’s Mbale City. The phones were unveiled by Uganda’s Minister of ICT and National Guidance, Dr. …
Read More »ATC boosts KCCA’s smart city agenda with 87 innovative streetlights
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), deployed the city’s first-ever smart pole street lights totaling 87. The lights which are anchored on telecom infrastructure have been placed around various places in the city. Thirty-three of them are deployed along Kololo Hill Drive, thirty along Nile Avenue, …
Read More »2023 PLE results to be released out today
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports Janet Kataha Museveni is expected to release the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results for 2022 today, around midday. The event, anticipated to be broadcasted, will be held at State House, Nakasero, revealing the results of the examinations conducted from …
Read More »DPP takes over Bitature prosecution in Vantage $26m saga
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The state has this week taken over criminal proceedings against businessman Patrick Bitature and his wife Carol Bitature in a $26m commercial dispute with South African money lender Vantage Mezzanine Fund 11 Partnership. The intervention by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) comes after Kirunda …
Read More »Airtel Africa CEO to retire
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Airtel Africa plc has announced the retirement of the Chief Executive Officer, Olusegun “Segun” Ogunsanya, with effect from July 1, 2024. Mr. Ogunsanya, who joined Airtel in 2012, ran the Nigeria Operations of the Telecommunications and Mobile Money Company for nine years before he was …
Read More »HIV/AIDS support: UAC targets phone users in the scaled up one dollar initiative
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In the scaled-up One Dollar Initiative (ODI), the seeks to obtain at least one dollar, approximately 4,000 Uganda Shillings, from every Ugandan mobile phone user, to mobilize enough money to fund the various HIV/AIDS interventions in the country. Established in Uganda in 2018, ODI is …
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