Uganda to renew MTN Group's telecoms operating licence
Uganda will renew the operating licence of the local unit of South African telecom company MTN Group, the state-run Uganda Media Centre said on Tuesday.
The renewal comes "with new stringent terms," the agency tweeted, without providing details.
MTN Uganda is the East African country's biggest telecommunications firm with more than ten-million subscribers and competes with a local unit of India's Bharti Airtel and other smaller companies.
It launched in Uganda in 1998 after acquiring a 20-year operating licence which was due to expire this year.
UCC has been reviewing its application for a ten-year extension of its licence since last year and last month the regulator told Reuters it was asking MTN to agree to list its shares on the local stock exchange as a condition for the renewal.
MTN was not immediately available to comment.
MTN Uganda has faced criticism on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook from some subscribers about data bundles getting used up quickly and the firm not responding to their complaints.
Uganda's telecoms sector has expanded rapidly over the last decade but analysts say a new tax on social media use could unravel some of those gains by jeopardising prospects for fresh investment in the sector.
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