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During the orange full times before the Africell take over. Buganda Kingdom had a strong partnerhsip with the then 079 network hosting its services and availing an indeoendnt telecom company. After a long battle with debts together with ups and lows experienced by K2 Telecom. Airtel Uganda has partnerd with Buganda to revive its Telecommunictions company with a switch of codes from 0730 to 0708.

Twitter recently carried out a routine check-up of all active users with multiple companies loosing huge followings gained through bots. The new measure that has come in from Twitter is to combat all cryptocurrency scammers. with an up close to Twitter's latest move, unverified accounts that change names to the Space X founder Elon Musk immediately blocked from Twitter.

The fate of mobile money tax in Uganda and new adjustments made every now and then fueled in by the president seems to be leading to an activist direction. Mobile money tax plus its brother in law, OTT tax have once again been pronounced alive and active by the state mnister for finance Hon Bahati in a press review about these new taxes. Scrapping off a whole 0.5% on the levied mobile money tax, Telecom companies will now battle with refunds of illegal taxes collected from subscribers as directed by Government.

South African based Telecom company MTN has pushed another step to the much hated OTT tax in Uganda by bocking all Opera affiliated browsers. A few weeks after URA mounted pressure on Telcoms to fulfill the budget mandate of soliciting social media tax. VPNs could soon be no more as a majority are blocked in Uganda.

Face scanning and Face ID are two apple profound features that are reportedly moving to Samsung. Now that Apple shipped in the Face ID feature which was launched last year. Samsung's interest in developing new phones with slightly the same feature is based on the anticipated Note 9 release that has a couple of features including a Bluetooth stylus before the next 2019 releases.

After a successful 2018/19 budget reading that saw social media and mobile money taxes usher their way into Uganda. The Government has introduced a new policy to tax airtime purchases as all scratch cards now posses a 10% tax increment. Telecom companies in policy notices sent out to vendors clarified the 10% increase as a new tax introduced on July 1st 2018 joining the rugs of social media tax that is now bypassed with various VPNs downloaded