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INTERVIEW: Uganda has trusted us and we want to remain a trustworthy partner; it’s the right thing and the right time — MTN’s Wim Wim Vanhellepute has spent over 20 years running telecoms on the African continent and the bigger part of that as a CEO. This July 2020, he completes four years of running, MTN Uganda, the country’s largest telecom company, and possibly the biggest company too. In this interview with CEO East Africa’s Muhereza Kyamutetera he shares highlights of his four years of running MTN, the impact of Covid-19 on the telecoms business, and the future of the industry.

by Muhereza Kyamutetera
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It is now 4 years since you assumed the leadership of MTN Uganda. What would you say have been the key highlights in these four years- your key achievements? Indeed on August 1st,2020, it will be four years since I joined MTN. In the last four years, there have been quite many achievements, but I can pick a few as enumerated here below: We, together with ZTE our partners, test-launched our 5

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Muhereza Kyamutetera is the Executive Editor of CEO East Africa Magazine. I am a travel enthusiast and the Experiences & Destinations Marketing Manager at EDXTravel. Extremely Ugandaholic. Ask me about #1000Reasons2ExploreUganda and how to Take Your Place In The African Sun.