Overview

MTN Uganda is a subsidiary of the MTN Group, a multinational communications and network access company, operating in Uganda. MTN was incorporated as a private company limited in 1998. The main object for which MTN was incorporated was to operate as a second national operator of a telecommunications network in Uganda. MTN converted to a public company limited in 2003. MTN has a presence in all 134 districts of Uganda and has evolved from a telecommunications company providing value-added services to a provider of an innovative range of products and services including voice, data, digital, and mobile financial services delivered through a network of approximately 120,000 mobile money agents, 200 service stores and 14 main distributors. MTN Uganda’s telco and fintech business was separated leading to the creation and licensing of MTN Mobile Money Uganda Limited in 2021. The MTN Group has over 240 million customers in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East.