The MTN Group is founded in 1994, in South Africa. As a multinational telecommunications group, it operates in African and Middle Eastern countries. Four years after they founded, they launched the first commercial services in Uganda [1] and provides the telecommunications services of fixed line services, public pay phones and Internet services.
MTN began to build the first ‘MTN Fibre Optic Line’ in Africa. This provides a high speed data transmission, broad band and multimedia services. In addition, it provides the basic services of voice fax. Therefore, MTN became the leading provider of telecommunication company in Uganda [2].
In 2004, the fix phone lines and mobile cellular subscribers reach 900,000, which is 51% of the existing lines [3].
Although the infrastructure is not sufficient in Uganda, the coverage of MTN Uganda still achieves more than 90% of the population, including more than 150 villages and towns and 52 district capitals [2].
The MTN Group is sponsor for 2010 FIFA World Cup where held in South Africa and has the exclusive rights to publish the mobile content in Africa and the Middle East [4]. In this year, MTN has 134.5 million subscribers in those 21 countries, including Uganda.
On 25 April 2013, the largest mobile operator in Africa, MTN, has launched LTE (Long Term Evolution) network in Uganda, which makes Uganda became the first commercial LTE country in East Africa. According to the GSA report for LTE, this is the first commercial TD-LTE network on this land [5].
Why MTN Uganda Launched the LTE
The LTE is global trend nowadays. As a large telecommunication company, MTN Uganda needs to launch the LTE network to stand in this modern telecommunication market. The reason why people think LTE will be t...
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