A new telecom company called Lycamobile Uganda has officially launched. The UK based telecom announced its entry into the Ugandan market at a event at Sheraton Hotel in Kampala. Lycamobile joins Uganda’s mature telecom market that has seen telecoms like Warid, Vodafone and Orange exit the market in the past decade.
Lycamobile Uganda wants to shake -up in the status quo following the entering into the market of a new company. Jeya Seelan, the Lycamobile Uganda Director said;
Our aim is to have a positive impact on the people of Uganda by providing customers with high-speed internet without compromising quality but also better call services. We want to have unrivaled 4G internet and we hope to roll out our services throughout the entire country in the next six months.
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LycaMobile Uganda is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator currently headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. It is part of the Lyca Group which has operations in over 23 countries including; Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, North and Macedonia among others whereas in Africa, they have presence in South Africa and Tunisia. The telecom is known for selling prepaid mobile services to customers wanting to make international telephone calls, on top of employing an aggressive pricing strategy on entry of countries where it sets up operations.
Lycamobile to create over 600 jobs
This means Uganda will be it’s first country in Africa for Lycamobile Uganda to launch their services and they will be using mobile prefix 072 for their numbers. Jeya Seelan added that;
As part of our future plans for Africa, we had to come to Uganda and it is good that the country offered us a working licence. This is our first step into the heart of Africa. We hope to create over 600 jobs both directly and indirectly but also expand the telecom market. We shall employ the local workforce in a bid to create employment as one of the ways to create impact to Ugandan citizens.
In order to ensure they don’t close shop quickly, Lycamobile Uganda says that they will partner with other operators in the market to ensure we stay afloat. But with over 25 million mobile phone users in the country and a nationwide penetration rate of 71% according to UCC, do you think Lycamobile will survive Uganda’s harsh telecom sector?
