Milking a cow you don't feed : is Uganda starving telecoms growth through high taxes?
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2009
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
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Some argue that the country’s slow liberalization process, and clumsy privatization of the incumbent Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (now Uganda Telecom Limited, UTL), has had severe impact on universal access. In the case of the former, it is argued that the stop-start liberalization process was evidence of a government desperately in need of money, and wanting to milk the highest cash value for the incumbent, ready to put access targets on the backburner to do this. The article argues that the balance of imperatives in Uganda feels uneven, and when it comes to taxes its policies are contradicted by regulation.
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TELECOM POLICY, TELECOM REGULATIONS, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT), UGANDA, ICT ACCESS AND USAGE, ICT POLICY, DIGITAL INCLUSION, TELECENTRES, COMPUTER LITERACY, TAX REFORM, PRIVATIZATION, CORRUPTION