Daily Monitor
Tuesday June 01 2021
Summary
Standalone business. E-commerce platforms of Airtel Uganda and MTN Uganda have automatically become standalone businesses from their parent companies –the telecoms, a move that is likely to drive partnerships among payment service providers.
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Is it a good move, or a risky one? Whose business is it going to impact mostly? Is it the savers, banks or telecoms that have been managing mobile money services?
These are the lingering questions in the corridors, sparked off by the recent pronouncement by Bank of Uganda (BoU) Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile that the Central Bank had commenced licensing of payment system operators, payment service providers and issuers of payment instruments.
Airtel Uganda donates to needy, poor
December 23, 2020 Written by OUR REPORTER
To celebrate the festive season, Airtel Uganda made meet-and-greet bounty visits to charity organisations under their annual 12 Days of Christmas program.
For the fifth year running, Airtel Uganda staff went out to meet and touch the lives of people of 12 selected projects spread all over the country. The campaign came to an end last Friday with Airtel Uganda reaching out to support Raising Hope International, Namuwongo, an organization that caters for children with sickle Cell disease.
“We recognize that the year has been very difficult for a lot of people especially because of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic that saw sourc