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Uganda: Inside the Fight Over U.S.$12 Billion in Mobile Money
Independent (Kampala), 26 February 2018
A fight is raging between telecom operators on one side, and the Uganda Communications Commissions (UCC), the Uganda Police Force, and State House on the other, over moves to… Read more »
Inside the Fight Over Uganda's U.S.$12-Billion Mobile Business
A fight is raging between Ugandan telecom operators on the one hand and the Uganda Communications Commission, police and the government on the other over moves to monitor the U.S.$12-billion mobile money business. At the heart of the fight is a push by President Yoweri Museveni to get full access to telecom data systems through the Intelligence Network Monitoring System that the government put in place last year, writes The Independent's Haggai Matsiko.
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Uganda: MTN Licence Expires, Rivals Fight Renewal
Independent (Kampala), 15 January 2018
Uganda's largest telecom company, MTN Uganda is caught up in a fight to secure the renewal of its licence which expires this year, The Independent can reveal. Read more »
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Uganda: Museveni Buying Shs70bn Gadget to Monitor Telecoms
Independent (Kampala), 9 May 2016
President Yoweri Museveni's staffers at State House are in the final stages of procuring technology that could enable the government to break a billion-dollar mushrooming telecom… Read more »
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Confidential user data may "end up in the wrong hands" after access was made available to telecommunications companies by the government in order to enforce Sim card registration, ... Read more »
