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There are a number of systems of communication in Uganda. These include a system of telephony, radio and television broadcasts as well as several newspapers.

[edit] Telephony

There are 108,600 (2006) main telephone lines in use in Uganda, and, in 2007, 4.195 million (2007) mobile telephones in use. Three cellular systems have been introduced in Uganda for mobile telephony.

Intercity telephone traffic is carried by wire. Microwave radio relay, and radiotelephone communication stations are used in the country also. Fixed and mobile cellular systems are used for short range traffic. International telephone communication is catered for by an Intelsat and an Inmarsat satellite earth station. There are analog links to Kenya and Tanzania.

Uganda has 18 internet service providers, providing for 750,000 (2006) internet users. The top-level domain for Uganda is ".ug"

[edit] Radio and television

There are 122 FM radio stations, 7 AM and 2 shortwave. These serve 2.6 million radios.

There are 2 major PayTV providers i.e DSTV and GTV (as of May 2008)

There are 22 television broadcast stations, serving 1,785,000 televisions. There are 15,000 HD Ready telelvisions.

[edit] Newspapers

Daily newspapers in Uganda include The New Vision, Sunday Vision, The Daily Monitor, The Sunday Monitor, The Red Pepper, The Sunday Pepper, The Uganda Observer, The East African. The East African Procurement News is a weekly business newspaper.

[edit] References

CIA. (2008, August 21) Uganda. Retrieved August 25, 2008, from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html
Kyeyune, H. (2004, May 21). CASE STUDY: UGANDA (Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics Radiocommunications Unit New Radiocommunication Technologies for Information and Communication Technologies in Developing African Countries). Retrieved December 2, 2005, from http://wireless.ictp.trieste.it/ITU_workshop/casestudies/Uganda.doc

[edit] Further reading

Easy Guide to the Internet in Uganda. IICD. 2006. http://www.iicd.org/files/Booklet%20Inet.pdf/.

[edit] See also

Uganda Communications Commission

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