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Telecom

  • Overview
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Communications plays a critical role in the economies of all countries around the world, and its importance is only increasing with the rapid development of new technologies and products that revolutionize how people – and devices – communicate. 

Our telecommunications practice is built on in-depth, specialist knowledge of the regulatory, commercial and transactional aspects of telecommunications law in Uganda. We have acted on a wide range of telecommunications mandates for clients. These include regulatory compliance obligations, complex regulatory matters concerning licensing and business issues such as mobile telephone banking, business viability studies and due diligence, major network infrastructure deployments, mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications finance, tax, passive infrastructure transactions and dispute resolution. We currently act for Uganda’s largest telecommunications operator and taxpayer, whom we advise on sensitive, high-level regulatory and corporate affairs.

Experience has included advising:

  • MTN, Uganda’s leading telecommunications operator, on the contentious and non-contentious aspects of its license renewal process and in related regulatory engagements with the Uganda Communications Commission.
  • Government of Uganda, in association with Deloitte & Touche, in conducting a business viability study and compliance audit of Uganda Telecom, a leading telecommunications company, ahead of a proposed divestiture.
  • Public Enterprises Loan Restructuring Programme and the Divestiture Reform Implementation Committee in a study to review the then-existing telecommunications legal framework law in Uganda ahead of the enactment of the Uganda Communications Act 1997.
  • Grameen Foundation, a global anti-poverty non-profit vehicle, on the licensing of the Village Phone program, including the onward sale of its license and interests to MTN.
  • Africell Uganda on its compliance with the competition law rules set out in the sector competition regulations.
  • Orange Uganda (now Africell) on the sale of its passive infrastructure business to Eaton Towers.