COMMENT | JAMES BYARUHANGA | On February 2, 2022, Uganda made a very significant step towards realising its first oil fortunes. We witnessed the announcement of the Final Investment Decision (FID) for Uganda’s oil and gas Projects by the Total Energies EP Uganda, CNOOC Uganda Limited, the Uganda National …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Users of mobile phones will effective Thursday, July 1, have to pay a 12 per cent Excise Duty on the value of data, airtime and other value-added services they use, each time they top up. The tax which has until now been charged at 20 …
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What makes today’s giant companies efficient is their ability to mine data and apply insights to their strategies COMMENT | Emmanuel Osanga | How can we not pay attention to data, considering the value it provides? Ultimately, it will position organisations to either win or lose in their industries. At …
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Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | Airtel Uganda has today (April 13) launched exciting data and voice bundles aimed at supporting the Muslim community during this holy month of Ramadhan. While addressing the media in Kampala, the company’s Head of Data, Devices and New Product Development, Joweria Nabakka Zziwa said the …
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Tanzania communications regulator TCRA suspends telecom firm’s new data charges Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | New President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government has suspended new internet data packages issued on Friday by telecommunication firms, saying they are expensive and need to be revised. The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority …
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Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | South Africa’s competition regulatory authority on Monday revealed that mobile operators have been overcharging for internet connectivity, ordering top operators to drop prices within two months or face prosecution. The high cost of data has in the past stirred public outrage prompting protests under …
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Google wins EU fight against worldwide ‘right to be forgotten’ Luxembourg, Luxembourg | AFP | Google is not required to apply an EU “right to be forgotten” to its search engine domains outside Europe, the EU’s top court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision. The European Court of Justice handed …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Internet users in East Africa that stood at 92 million in January 2018, are slated to cross the 100 million users mark by end of 2018 and keep growing at an average 20% annually over the next 5 years. With more and more fibre …
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BoU says it’s not responsible for secrecy of customers’ information Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Privacy of customer data is the bedrock of the banking sector around the world but for a section of Uganda’s commercial banks, this code seems to be slowly eroding— posing a big risk to the industry …
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San Francisco, United States | AFP | Facebook, embattled in a scandal over the mishandling of user data, confirmed Monday that it also collected information from people beyond their social network use. During heated hearings in Congress last week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already explained that Facebook collects data beyond …
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