SafeBoda took a bold decision to launch a car hailing service under the brand SafeCar to solve a very simple customer problem ...

The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has opened a 14-day window for public comments on an application that would ...

AFCON 2027 qualifying will test East Africa’s mobile sports UX, from Android performance and weak connections to alerts and ...

The United Nations Capital Development Fund says its Uganda digital-inclusion Leaving No One Behind (LNOB) programme registered more than 3.4 million users, but only about 29 percent were active — a ...

Walk into any busy market in Kampala, Lagos or Nairobi these days and you will hear the same talk among phone sellers. The really cheap smartphones that used to sell fast are getting harder to find at ...

End-to-end encryption has been the default for years on WhatsApp, meaning your messages stay between you and the people you’re talking to. But encryption alone doesn’t stop someone from hijacking your ...

Uganda’s telecom sector, long defined by fierce competition between the two giants MTN and Airtel, has been steadily weaving a more connected fabric. Interoperability — the ability of networks, ...

Take a look at modern betting apps, and you’ll see that they do more than just supply fixtures and markets. Behind what is obvious in the interface are payment systems, transaction records, identity ...

On 1 September 2026, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet account posted that high-speed, low-latency service is available nationwide, with a storefront on its portal and the country painted blue on ...

Your TIN Is Dead. NIRA Just Took Over URA. Uganda’s Cabinet has approved a shift that tax technologists have been building toward for years: the National Identification Number issued by NIRA will ...

For the better part of a decade, the conventional wisdom in African telecoms was clear and almost dogma: owning thousands of steel towers was not the smartest use of a mobile operator’s capital. Sell ...

For years, the story of technology in Uganda’s financial sector has largely been told through mobile money, digital banking apps, cashless payments and the steady migration of everyday transactions ...