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By Julius Businge  Uganda’s largest telecommunication firm, MTN has today clarified on reports that a good number of its customers are not happy with its data services.  Speaking to journalists at the company’s headquarters in Kampala on Nov. 18, the company’s CEO, Brian Gouldie, said MTN has all the experience …

By Joan Akello MTN has announced that it has started installing Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, a ‘standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminal’, known as 4G technology. The network infrastructure upgrade plan will provide its customers with faster data access and speed of …

By Kavuma-Kaggwa MTN makes huge amounts of revenue from Uganda annually and almost the whole of it goes to South Africa The giant telecom MTN of South Africa recently marked 14 years of operation in Uganda. In a congratulatory message on the occasion, the MTN Board Chairman, Charles Mbire, said …

By Joan Akello MTN Uganda has lodged a formal complaint with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) in Uganda against the Chief Magistrate of the Buganda Road Magistrates Court, Sylvia Nabagala. The complaint concerns Nabagala’s professional misconduct in contradictory rulings and disregard of due process. It is alleged  that the magistrate …

  By Magnus Mazimpaka The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) appointed MTN’s Chief Operations Officer for Rwanda, Andrew Rugege, to head its Eastern Region. In five years Rugege has overseen MTN Rwanda grow from just 300,000 to almost 3 million subscribers. Magnus Mazimpaka spoke to him about his time at the …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Telecom leader explains why it’s not panicked by competitors clawing at its market share Since Warid Telecom announced a 50 percent call tariff cut mid-last month, the competition have, as expected, responded with similarly severe call tariff calls. Most mobile telephone service operators now charge Shs …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Telecom leader explains why it’s not panicked by competitors clawing at its market share Since Warid Telecom announced a 50 percent call tariff cut mid-last month, the competition have, as expected, responded with similarly severe call tariff calls. Most mobile telephone service operators now charge Shs …

By The Independent Team South Africa and East Africa segment posts 6% loss MTN Group last week announced an increase in revenue and subscribers for the year ended 31 December 2009, they however admitted a negative impact due to the economic crisis, the introduction of new regulations such as SIM …

By Duncan McLeod `It’s hard moving on’ It’s difficult to let go.” Phuthuma Nhleko, MTN’s group president and CEO, sounds almost rueful when I ask him why he’s decided to hang up his hat at the mobile operator. “You do a lot of soul searching,” he tells me in an …

By Independent Team MTN’s Average Revenue per User (ARPU) which describes how much money each subscriber spends on average on the network has declined, according to its latest figures. Following on a pattern set in the past, Ugandans have continued to spend less on phone calls as they make shorter …