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Uganda: UCC Seeks $23m for Post Services
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New Vision (Kampala)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 16 May 2008
David Muwanga
Kampala
THE Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) is looking for $25.3m to improve postal services. A UCC report on the baseline study on postal services, explained that the money would be used under a 15-year project.
The report said 78% of the money would be capital investment, while 22% would go to recurrent expenditure.
"For the first five years, the commission will spend $8.3m and $15.2 in the next 10 years," the report said.
It disclosed that the national network and infrastructure capacity to provide postal services was insufficient.
It said while the country could benefit from the 700,000 networks of international postal service providers, the domestic network had only 400 outlets, limiting local utilisation of services and the network.
The study also indicated that the postal service infrastructure "was very old, dilapidated and sub-optimally positioned."
"Many regional and district offices were established by colonialists and are situated away from business districts of the towns and not easily accessible," it noted.
Postal infrastructure was less established at the lower levels of county, sub-county and villages, the report established.
Technology used for the delivery of services was equally old and obsolete, while for the transfer of postal items, apart from postal buses that ferry items between larger towns, postal officers use bicycles, public transport and even travel on foot to deliver items, it moaned.
The report recommended that the network density be reviewed and strategic investments made to enhance the network so that customers in rural areas are able to access the services. "There is need to upgrade the technology and create new investments."
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in mail processing and tracking technology," it concluded.
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