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Thanks to the market liberalization, mobile phone penetration in Uganda is expected to increase from 39% in 2009 to 70.7% by 2014, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. As a matter of fact, the research company argues that in the next five years, Uganda will experience the second highest percentage increase in terms of mobile subscriptions among the African countries (after Cameroon).
At the moment, there are five mobile operators in the country, three of which are well-established: MTN Uganda, Uganda Telecom, and Zain Uganda. Warid Telecom and Orange Uganda joined the trio in February 2008, and March 2009, respectively, while another one, Anupam is due to enter soon.
As expected, increased competition is driving down prices, with new entrant Warid being particularly aggressive to attract subscribers, and has succeeded to grab 15% of the market, already…
[Via: CellularNews]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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