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AI-generated image depicting telecom towers across Uganda’s landscape — illustrating the high-stakes battle set to unfold as Indus Towers enters the market, challenging established players and reshaping Africa’s passive infrastructure industry.

How Bharti Airtel’s Indus Towers Decision to Enter Africa is Likely to Shape the Ugandan Market and Beyond

Bharti Airtel’s tower infrastructure arm, Indus Towers, is stepping into Africa for the first time — and it is beginning with Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia. The move, disclosed in recent stock exchange

September 5, 2025

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Africell head office in Kampala. The telecom will stop operations in Uganda next month

EXCLUSIVE: Outcompeted and debt-strapped, Africell to exit Ugandan market, just like its predecessor, Orange telecom

Employees of telecommunication operator Africell are in a state of panic as the telecom is said to be winding business in Uganda, leading to hundreds of job losses. “The employees know that

September 3, 2021

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One step front, two steps behind: Can Africell survive an onslaught from MTN and Airtel, amidst declining sales, heavy losses and deep indebtedness?

With UGX1.5 tn in accumulated losses, UGX258.3bn in debts amidst declining sales, how long can Africell hold its ground?

Over the last month, the market was awash with talk that Eaton Towers and ATC Uganda, the two biggest operators of cell towers in Uganda, had switched off telecom operator, Africell Uganda

September 13, 2019

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