MTN, Warid Telecom & UTL raise mobile tariffs Uganda

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The Ugandan mobile operators, MTN, Warid Telecom & UTL, as it was earlier anticipated, have raised their mobile tariffs. MTN announced a 9% increase in tariffs for callers on PayGo Standard, Yellomax, YelloGo, Yellopersecond, MTN LateChart and MTNZone.
This move was followed by a raise in tariff by Warid Telecom which launched a permanent tariff service named as Pakalast. “We have been very responsible not to over- burden Ugandans. The average increment is 9%,” he said. He said the rates of other services like Internet would remain unchanged. Zul Javaid, the Warid CEO, also cited increasing costs of operations to justify the increase.

“The cost of running the network has increased by much more than what we have passed onto the consumers,” Javaid argued.

According to Han Paulsen at UTL, the tariff have gone up by between 8-10% for calls to own network and other as well.