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Nyombi Thembo

MTN's Sylvia Mulinge (left) and Airtel's Soumendra Sahu. Telecoms are investing heavily in data-enabled infrastructure. For instance, in 2024, MTN and Airtel invested a combined UGX893.7 billion in infrastructure projects with a focus on 4G and 5G sites.
MTN's Sylvia Mulinge (left) and Airtel's Soumendra Sahu. Telecoms are investing heavily in data-enabled infrastructure. For instance, in 2024, MTN and Airtel invested a combined UGX893.7 billion in infrastructure projects with a focus on 4G and 5G sites.

Mobile Phone @30: Data is the New Airtime; Telecoms Shift to Digital-First Investment Models

Until 2007, mobile phone subscribers had largely known voice and short message texting needs. In fact, for a long time, the mobile phone had no major use apart from making and receiving
June 14, 2025
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Let to right: Posta Uganda MD James Arinaitwe, ICT State Minister Godfrey Kabbyanga and Auditor General General Edward Akol. Their insights about Posta tell a picture of a parastatal struggling on many different fronts.
Let to right: Posta Uganda MD James Arinaitwe, ICT State Minister Godfrey Kabbyanga and Auditor General General Edward Akol. Their insights about Posta tell a picture of a parastatal struggling on many different fronts.

Posta Uganda: The Asset-Rich Parastatal Struggling With Cashflow Issues and Earning Profits

Imagine Posta Uganda, formerly Uganda Post Limited, as a traditional service provider—delivering mail, packages, selling stamps, and offering agency banking in remote outposts. It’s not glamorous, but it remains an integral cog
June 9, 2025
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After her exit at UCC, Irene Kaggwa is now at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, Switzerland.

Irene Kaggwa: The ‘precious stone’ that UCC rejected joins International Telecommunication Union in Switzerland 

Former Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Acting Executive Director, Eng. Irene Kaggwa’s exit from government is relatable to Jesus’ biblical expression of “a stone which builders rejected [eventually] became the cornerstone.” But after
January 6, 2025
Hon. George William Nyombi Thembo, the new Executive Director of the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC).

From a poor village boy who shared a grass-thatched house with goats, to a minister and now UCC Executive Director⏤Hon. Nyombi Thembo’s story

George William Nyombi Thembo was born in 1964, just two years after Uganda’s independence to the late Erisa Somongu- a political activist and a Kabaka Yekka die-hard, Eseza Nanyonga Ziribasanga in Kasanda
December 2, 2023
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