The Telecommunication sector in Uganda is growing with at least five major players in the industry to offer GSM services, Internet and lately Mobile Money services. We posed a similar question on the Uganda Online wall and most of the comments were suggesting that Orange is fairly good when it comes to the internet.

MTN was leading when it came to Mobile Money and Warid was equally doing well on GSM. to participate in the survey, log on to our Facebook page to comment and also see what others have posted.

WARID and Orange Uganda have joined the Mobile Money network to offer money transfer services to their clients. MTN's Mobile money and UTL's M-Sente are already in operation with DSTV, Umeme, NWSC among others using this service for customers to settle their bills.

At Case Clinic for example, you clearly see a notice displayed at the payment point that they accept mobile money payments.  This can be helpful in a number of ways, assuming you are short on cash of course as you did not know the cost of the drugs coupled with the consultation fee, you could go ahead and call up a friend to bail you out by sending the money to your phone so that the medical bills can be settled.

Not so many people might be embracing it now but it will be a matter of time before this becomes a way of life though problems like load shedding can easily affect you if you do not charge your mobile phone.

To access your account which in this case is your mobile phone, it must be on. To receive money as well, the phone must be on because unlike SMS that can be delivered when the phone is switched on, you must use a service centre to retrieve mobile money messages.