The year 2017 served up quiet some mixed bag for one of Uganda’s biggest domestic revenue contributors – the telecommunication sector. It was in 2017 that the mandatory cut-off of all unregistered SIM cards was implemented, a noble exercise that, regrettably, cost telecoms heavily. In the same year, and as a result of SIM card registration activities, the country, for the first time in several years, recorded a reduction in the number of active subscribers. The year was also characterised by several telecom human resource movements at the top level coupled with endless rumours of some of the fragile operators…
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