East African Business Week

Tanzania: Tigo Ownership Under Probe

Tanzanian government will soon investigate and report back to the national assembly about the stands of ownership of the local mobile phone operator MIC Tanzania Ltd, Tigo.

This comes following the pressure from some members of Parliament who wanted to know why Tigo Tanzania Ltd is wholly owned by foreigners which is contrary to the laws of the country specifically EPOCA Act of 2010.

Source: East African Business Week

Uganda: Airtel's Mobile Money creates seamless regional money transfer

The entry of Airtel Uganda into the Mobile Money platform is set to generate renewed innovativeness that could yet again send ripples across Uganda's telecom sector.

Early last week, Airtel launched it's mobile money platform dubbed 'Airtel Money' that will enable Ugandans to access liquid cash and convert it to e-money in order to pay bills and accounts, top up mobile credit and receive money across the country's telecom networks.

Source: East African Business Week

Airtel Settles Interconnect Dispute with Uganda Telecom

Airtel Uganda has suspended plans to stop accepting inbound calls from Uganda Telecom following intervention from the government.

Airtel has been in dispute with Uganda Telecom for some time over a US$2.3 million debt that Telecom is struggling to pay.

Source: East African Business Week

Multichoice Kenya launches mobile decoder

Kenyan pay television service provider Multichoice Kenya has launched a new mobile decoder into the Kenyan market that will enable its subscribers have access to mobile television services.

The new mobile decoder dubbed Drifta, targeted at mobile television enthusiasts will see subscribers within the firm's mobile network coverage areas in Nairobi, Mombasa and their environs have access to various DStv channels.

Source: East African Business Week

StarTimes TV connects 200,000 subscribers in East Africa

StarTimes DTV has by far connected over 200,000 customers in the East African region, the Chief Marketing Officer Star DTV Uganda Kevin Chen has said.

StarTimes DTV is a Chinese-owned digital satellite pay TV and also operates in the East African countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. In Africa, it operates in about 10 countries and its headquarters are based in Beijing, China. StarTimes officially begun its operations in Uganda in March, 2010 and so far has a customer base of 30,000 subscribers.

Source: East African Business Week

Once more with feeling: Tanzania’s TTCL in third sale attempt, raising US$214 m

The publicly-owned Tanzania Telecommunications Limited (TTCL) is seeking a US$214.67 million credit facility, as it plans to enter into the third privatization attempt.
Reports from the TTCL workers’ union revealed last week that an unnamed Vietnamese firm has shown interest in buying the country's telecoms back bone firm.

This will be the third privatization attempt after the first two that ended miserably for Tanzania as the two firms bought in failed to meet agreed terms and scope of work and business targets.

Source: East African Business Week

Rwanda: switch to digital broadcasting early next year

Rwanda will switch to digital broadcasting early next year beating the 2012 deadline African countries set to switch off analogue broadcasting. The development paves the way for the Rwanda government to licence a second signal distributor for a terrestrial digital broadcast network, according to Ignatius Kabagambe, Director General in the Ministry of Information. Kabagambe says in Rwanda the law provides for a maximum of two signal distributors.

Source: East African Business Week

Israel’s ECI Telecom launches in Ugandan Market

A new mobile telecommunication and internet service providing company, ECI Telecom has entered the Ugandan market.

This has brought the number of telecommunications service providers to eight in Uganda. These include MTN, Uganda Telecom, Airtel, Warid Telecom, Orange Telecom, Smile Telecom and I telecom.

During the launch of ECI Telecom in Kampala, Matthias Nass, the Vice President Field Marketing, said they will improve utility services and help service providers to provide cheaper Internet to Ugandans in their first phase of operation.

Source: East African Business Week

Tigo Partners With DStv to Ease Payments in Tanzania

Tanzania's premier mobile telecommunication company, Tigo, has partnered with DStv to provide Tigo Pesa registered customers to subscribe to the television services using their handsets.

Speaking to the East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam, the telecom's Public Relations Executive, Jackson Mmbando said that the partnership aims at easing payments to get DStv service. "We would spare no effort to ensure that Tigo Pesa customers enjoy services offered by our partners", said Mmbando

Source: East African Business Week

Uganda Passes Cyber Laws

Uganda's Parliament has passed into law the electronic transactions and electronic signature bills that will improve the regulations for security of electronic transactions and devices. Until now, Ugandans have been engaged in online transactions have been at the mercy of the other seller is something goes wrong. Also, the incidence of online fraud committed by Ugandans defrauding other unsuspecting Ugandans is on the rise and the new pieces of legislation be used to check that.

Source: East African Business Week
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