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MTN Uganda Limited (MTNU)

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MTN Uganda Limited is a Ugandan telecommunications company that provides telecommunications and digital services. MTN was incorporated in Uganda on 21 October 1998. MTN has thus grown to a subscriber base of approximately 19 million customers.

MTN has a presence in all 134 districts of Uganda and has evolved from a telecommunications company providing value-added services to a provider of an innovative range of products and services including voice, data, digital and mobile financial services delivered through a network of approximately 150,000 mobile money agents, 200 service stores and 14 main distributors.

In 2021, MTN became the largest local listed company on Uganda Securities Exchange worth UGX 4 trillion. MTN currently employs approximately1,048 employees both indirectly and directly. MTN has been the largest taxpayer in Uganda for the last 10 years, having paid UGX 839 billion in 2021 alone.

Source: MTN Uganda Website.

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Best Case Law · Court of Appeal

MTN Uganda Limited v Ezee Money Uganda Limited

Lost · 2026

The decision establishes the meaning of "communication services" under the UCC Act to by limiting it to operators licensed or licensable under that Act holding that it would be a stretch to suggest that every business whose operations runs on telecom platforms is involved in…

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