It’s been 30 years since the first mobile phone was launched in Uganda. The launch, in 1995, of Celtel as the first mobile telecommunications company rewrote Uganda’s telecom story in ways no one would have imagined. It is a revolution that continues to evolve, and will be told for years. But the attempt, three years later, by Mr Charles Mbire, the current MTN chairman, to convince South African telecom company, MTN Group, to invest in Uganda is a story of its own. It shaped the industry that had for three years been monopolised by Celtel and declassed a sector that…
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