Tag Archives: UTL

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is in final stages of establishing national roaming guidelines that will enable telecom companies to fix mobile phone connectivity issues countrywide. National roaming refers to agreements among operators to use each other’s network to provide services in geographic areas where they have no …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Secretary to Treasury Keith Muhakanizi has directed that the audit on activities of the Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) be halted. Muhakanizi, who doubles as Permanent secretary Ministry of Finance wrote to the UTL Administrator Bemanya Twebaze on August 2rd asking him to halt …

  Experts say Bemanya should stay but government should focus on recapitalising the telecom firm Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Debts, poor corporate governance, fights, politics and ageing infrastructure have taken centre stage in debates surrounding Uganda Telecom Limited. Bemanya Twebaze, a Ugandan lawyer and corporate executive, who has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Privatization and Investment, Evelyn Anite has directed the Internal Auditor in the Ministry of Finance to conduct an audit on activities of the Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL). “Arising from H.E the President’s letter ref: PO/10 dated 16th July, 2019 addressed …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of creditors of Uganda Telecommunications Limited-UTL have petitioned court seeking orders to remove the Administrator. The sixteen creditors led by  Asaph Nandawula state that the appointment of the official receiver as the Administrator and acting as such on a permanent basis is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The contract of the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) registrar general Bemanya Twebaze has been renewed, nine months to the expiry of the current contract. In a letter to Bemanya dated June 27, 2019, Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire said he was …

The powerful people behind Bemanya Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) looks like a typical company in shambles. In April 2017 it run to court to block a petition seeking to wound it up partly owing to Shs709 billion debts it had accumulated over the years. …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twebaze Bemanya, the Registrar General, Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), will remain the administrator of Uganda Telecom and continue with the process of identifying an investor to partner with government to revamp it, President Yoweri Museveni has directed. The president’s directive was first …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has written to Justice Minister Kahinda Otafire, warning that no action should be taken on Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL), without Cabinet approval. “As I have guided on several occasions, given the strategic importance of UTL to the economy, government has been …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The scandal about Uganda Telecom Limited-UTL could be a ploy to privatize the company, the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party spokesperson, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has noted. Last month, the Aringa South MP, Alioni Yorke Odria tabled shocking documents indicating that government’s efforts to carry …