This is a list of mobile network operators in Uganda: *

MTN Uganda MTN Uganda is the largest telecom company in Uganda, with 11.2 million subscribers, accounting for 55 percent market share, as of 30 June 2017. By 31 December 2019, its customer base had increased to 12.6 million customers. In March 2021, the Uga ...

Airtel Uganda Airtel Uganda Limited is a mobile communications and information technology services provider in Uganda. The company also offers mobile funds transfer and banking services known as ''Airtel Payments Bank''. Airtel Uganda Limited is a subsidiary ...

* UTel * Smile Telecom * Lycamobile Uganda. * Roke Telkom Uganda Note:

K2 Telecom K2 Telecom is a telecommunications network company in Uganda. It was established in January 2013. By November 2015, the company's estimated its number of subscribers at about 200,000. History K2 was launched by Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II ...

operates as a component of Airtel Uganda.

Customer base

, there were an estimated 20.4 million mobile subscribers out of an estimated population of 39.6 million; a 51.5 percent penetration rate. By March 2018, the number of mobile phone users had increased to 24.8 million, a 70.9 percent penetration rate. As of June 2020, the number of mobile telephone customers were estimated at 25.5 million, as reported by the Daily Monitor newspaper. That figure had increased to 26.5 million at the end of September 2020. As of 31 March 2017, Uganda had the 18th highest Internet usage rate in Africa (out of 58 countries). The country had 13,023,114 Internet users out of a population of 41,652,938, bringing the Internet penetration rate to 31.3 percent. As of September 2020, Uganda recorded 20.1 million Internet users, out of an estimated mid-year population of 41.58 million, bringing internet penetration to 48.3 percent, nationwide. As of 31 March 2022, according to the

Uganda Communications Commission The Uganda Communications Commission ''(UCC)'' is the government regulatory body of the communications sector in Uganda. Although owned by the Ugandan government, it acts independently. Its mandated responsibilities include licensing, regulatio ...

(UCC), there were a total of 30.6 million active telephone lines in the country. The mid-year national population was estimated 44.2 million people. This calculates at 69 active lines per 100 Ugandans or 80 percent for Ugandans aged 15 and above.

Market share

The table below illustrates the market share of each of the major mobile network operators in the country, as of December 2021. *Note: Totals may be off, due to rounding. When Africell exited Uganda, after 7 October 2021, a total of 3.3 million mobile subscribers in Uganda were up for grabs between the remaining four mobile network operators in the country.

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Internet key to growth, Airtel boss
As of 13 June 2018.
Communications in Uganda: A look at one of Africa’s fastest growing markets
As of August 2009.

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