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Smart Telecom (Uganda)
Smart Telecom (Uganda) was a private telecommunications company in Uganda, operating from 2014 to August 31, 2021. Headquartered in Kampala, it offered low-cost mobile voice and 3G data services, primarily targeting price-sensitive urban customers. Owned by Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), a subsidiary of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), Smart Telecom struggled to compete with MTN Uganda and Airtel Uganda, exiting due to financial losses and increased challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. History Smart Telecom (Uganda) launched in March 2014 as the fifth mobile network operator in Uganda, after acquiring Sure Telecom’s license in 2013. Backed by AKFED’s IPS, it entered a market dominated by MTN and Airtel, offering a flat call rate of UGX 74 for any duration, the lowest in Uganda at the time. By 2015, Smart Telecom claimed a regional customer base of approximately 1 million, likely including Tanzania, though Ugandan numbers were smaller. Declining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mobile Network Operators In Uganda
This is a list of mobile network operators in Uganda: * MTN Uganda * Airtel Uganda *Talkio Mobile * UTel * Hamilton Telecom * Lycamobile Uganda * Roke Telkom Uganda Note: K2 Telecom 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 Intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companies Established In 2014
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Over time, companies have evolved to have the following features: "separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, investor ownership, and a managerial hierarchy". The company, as an entity, was created by the state which granted the privilege of incorporation. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is to generate sales, revenue, and profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duties according to the publicly declared incorporation pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Establishments In Uganda
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Mobile Phone Companies Of Uganda
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Telecommunications Companies Established In 2014
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of transmission may be divided into communication channels for multiplexing, allowing for a single medium to transmit several concurrent communication sessions. Long-distance technologies invented during the 20th and 21st centuries generally use electric power, and include the telegraph, telephone, television, and radio. Early telecommunication networks used metal wires as the medium for transmitting signals. These networks were used for telegraphy and telephony for many decades. In the first decade of the 20th century, a revolution in wireless communication began with breakthroughs including those made in radio communications by Guglielmo Marconi, who won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. Other early pioneers in electrical and electronic tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecommunications In Uganda
There are a number of systems of communication in Uganda, including a system of telephony, radio and television broadcasts, internet, mail, and several newspapers. The use of phones and the internet in Uganda has rapidly increased in the last few years. History 1900–1970 The postal service of for the protectorates of British East Africa and Uganda was called East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, and operated from 1 April 1903, to 22 July 1920. From 1948 to 1977, postal service in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda was provided by the East African Posts and Telecommunications Corporation. With the decolonization of Africa, Uganda took over control of its postal system, although until 1961 stamps from the colonial postal system were being issued alongside Uganda's stamps. 1990s–present The Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation had a monopoly over Uganda's communications sector until the Uganda Communications Act was enacted in 1997. The act created the Uganda Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, regulation, communications infrastructure development and the expansion of rural communications service. Location The headquarters of the UCC are located at 42-44 Spring Road, in Bugoloobi, a neighborhood in Nakawa Division, in Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country. Other regional offices are located in Gulu, Mbale, Masindi and Mbarara. History UCC was created by the Communications Act enacted in 1997, by the Ugandan Parliament. That instrument, split the then Ugandan parastatal, ''Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Company Limited'' (UPTCL), into four entities: * Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) – The communications industry regulator * Uganda Post Limited – Also known as Posta Uganda * PostBank Uganda â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axian Telecom
Axian Telecom is an investment holding company primarily in entities operating in the telecommunications services, ICT infrastructure and mobile money services across Africa sector. The company was founded in 2003 and maintains its headquarters the Standard Chartered Tower, 10th Floor, 19 Cybercity, Ebène, Mauritius. Subsidiaries and investments The companies that compose the Axian Telecom include, but are not limited, to the following: * Free Sénégal (trading as " Yas Sénégal") – Dakar, Senegal – 78.4% Shareholding – A telecommunication company in Senegal. Acquired in 2020. * Stellar-IX Data Centers – Ebène, Mauritius – 100% Shareholding – Holding company for the Stellar-IX companies. These subsidiaries provide Data center services. ** Stellar-IX Tanzania – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – 80% Shareholding ** Stellar IX Madagascar – Antananarivo, Madagascar – 100% Shareholding * Telecom Comores – Moroni, Comoros – 43.3% Shareholding – A telecom opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telecommunications
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of transmission may be divided into communication channels for multiplexing, allowing for a single medium to transmit several concurrent Session (computer science), communication sessions. Long-distance technologies invented during the 20th and 21st centuries generally use electric power, and include the electrical telegraph, telegraph, telephone, television, and radio. Early telecommunication networks used metal wires as the medium for transmitting signals. These networks were used for telegraphy and telephony for many decades. In the first decade of the 20th century, a revolution in wireless communication began with breakthroughs including those made in radio communications by Guglielmo Marconi, who won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of Airtel Africa PLC. Location The headquarters of Airtel Uganda are located in ''Airtel Towers'', along Clement Hill Road, in the Central Division of Kampala, the county's capital and largest city. The coordinates of the headquarters are 0°19'14.0"N, 32°35'18.0"E (Latitude:0.320556; Longitude:32.588333). History Airtel entered the Uganda market on June 8, 2010 when Bharti Airtel acquired 16 Zain Africa operations. In 2013, Airtel fully acquired Warid Telecom Uganda in the first ever in-country acquisition in the telecommunications sector. With this, Airtel further consolidated its position as the second largest mobile operator in Uganda with a combined customer base of over 7.4 million and market share of over 39 percent cementing it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
