Telecoms

Among the winners of MTN Open API Challenge, East Matatu is one in the transport sector that may give a headache to existing solutions like Uber, Bolt and Little. The app aims at making ordinary taxis accessible by customers without necessarily requesting for every location.

Airtel Money Pay is a service that we all knew would come to life but not as soon as the time seems to clock in favor of the Red network. If you're familiar with MTN's 2018 trendy Bosco AD, then chances are you know what Momo pay is and what it can really do by relying on your momo account balance. Well, Airtel is also shipping the same service but this time around with a red collar favoring its mobile money service pack.

Uganda will this year join the list of countries that have organized the Africa Internet summit with the latest being Senegal that hosted the summit in 2018. In June, hundreds of players in the African and Global internet industry will once again meet at Sheraton Kampala hotel for the 2019 Africa Internet summit.

Rwanda data bundles are the cheapest in Africa and this may surprise you but accept it with a higher thought. In Africa data is known to be expensive depending on the service provider costs involved to procure a connection to all customers. However, this is not the case in countries like India and its to this same fashion that Rwanda borrowed a leaf as the cheapest data packages jungle in Africa.

MTN Uganda has for the past months not had a perfect outing with Government, all the flaws that led to the deportation of the company CEO and top officials could soon be over. This is through the new telecom plans of increasing the local shareholding percentage to 20% from 4%.

MTN Uganda has not had a good 2019 after Police deported the telecom's Chief Marketing OfficerMr Olivier Prentout and top officials including the Mobile Money manager Ms. Elsa Mussolini, the boiling pan has slid to the Company CEO who is now enjoying the fresh air of his home country.