Uganda: Museveni Orders UCC to Explain MTN Licence Fees

15 January 2019

Kampala — President Museveni tasked the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) to explain why they reduced the fees for renewal of MTN Uganda's licence to far less than the originally proposed amount and noted that the reduction was unjustified.

"You ought to be aware that over the 20 years span during which MTN has been operating in Uganda, it has reaped vast profits most of which have obviously been repatriated. This is common knowledge derived from the company's own declarations and from our own sources," the President wrote to UCC and ministry of ICT on October 28, 2018.

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