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Q&A with UCC’s Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo on the competitive landscape and ensuring a sustainable telco industry for both users and investors 

According to UCC’s Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo the telecommunications sector in Uganda, is one of the few sectors with consistent price drops over the years despite the increases in the cost of factor inputs such as fuel and forex depreciation. She says, on average, Uganda has enjoyed a consistent improvement in the affordability of communication services with average mobile voice and data prices dropping by more than 25% and 88% in the last 10 years.

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What is the Commission's overall take on the competitiveness landscape across the various segments of the telco industry and how is this likely to shape the development of the sector in 2023 and beyond? While the Commission continues to promote fair and competitive conduct across the communications value chain (markets), we note that some segments of the market/value chain are not as competitiv

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