Daily Monitor
Tuesday May 11 2021
Closed shops in Namayiba Bus Park in 2020 during the lockdown. Figures from URSB show that between 2018 and 2020, over 21 companies were liquidated while 13 are currently under administration. PHOTO/Abubaker Lubowa
Summary
Uganda Registration Services Bureau statistics indicate that out of the 94 companies that had registered for liquidation, at least 26 companies have been liquidated, while two are in administration to help them survive their next phase of growth.
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At the end of 2008, Uganda Telecom (UTL) held a substantial market share in Uganda’s telecom space.
By then, Uganda had over 8.5 mobile subscribers. UTL held a cut throat competition in market leadership in terms of dominance with MTN for mobile and fixed telecom markets.
Lawyers amazed at UCC ignorance as Google tells regulator to go to court
December 17, 2020 UCC boss Irene Kagwa
Multi international technology giant, Google has told off the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) to come up with more justifiable reasons to have the company take down the listed 17 YouTube accounts.
In response to the December 9 letter to Google to take down the accounts for allegedly inciting violence in Uganda, Google head of communication and public affairs for Africa, Dorothy Ooko briefly said: “it is very hard to just have a channel removed due to a government request.”
UCC claimed that the cited channels violated Ugandan laws when they broadcasted content which might cause economic sabotage and compromise Uganda’s national security. The 17 channels have largely been publishing or live-streaming content from National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine s cam