Friends
If you do business in Uganda I need you to follow the frustration we have
especially from/in diaspora. For many times I have struggled to explain to
Ugandans that moving from landlines to cells has a greater disadvantage to
Uganda as a country. And I have made this argument based on the fact that
the cells are temporary but that system is built on voice communication than
data and voice. When Uganda fails to build its system to carry data you fail
also to use the net, think about this, what age do you see a Ugandan
applying for a net service in his home? We fail in this because the system
is simply not built but the country is not wired. When you compare the
prices of the cell themselves, it costs me almost 4 times to reach a number
in Uganda than in Kenya Tanzania let alone Rwanda. Why when we have such a
powerful satellite system in the country? Because the country is not wired
up.
I need to add a new problem that I have not listed before. Because Uganda
businesses are using cells, to deal with them you need to know the owners of
such cells. Land lines belong to companies but cells belong to individuals.
And that is how far we failed to realize. When you look for a paper like
Uganda Observer they have even a cell listed on their website, what happens
is that whoever owns that cell if he changes the provider that cell goes and
that means that those that listed it have lost communication. Land lines
remain permanent, for example from ages and ages ago, Mulago hospital used a
number 54001 we all grew up knowing that number and all listings
advertisements had that number, when Kampala added a 2 it changed to a
254001, again as a publicly known number and in all documentations. Uganda
posts used to be 56151 and changed accordingly. But now we have numbers
starting with 7, some have 77, some have God knows what.
We now have started to get a huge complaint that Uganda businesses are not
having permanent communications because they have no listed numbers. When
you deal with a company, you need to know a particular person and that
persons cell number. That is not to do business with any country than
Uganda, for people get laid off they resign or change service providers, and
those cell change. I know someone in Uganda distillery and I know her cell
number, the question becomes what does the person that does not know that
cell do? And why do you foolishly put the land line numbers on your website
when you know the number does not work anymore? Now when you go to Emails
they are as daft as the phone numbers, you will send an Email and it comes
back with the Email is not in service, or Email post has tried and cannot
deliver, will not try again to deliver contact your provider, or a simply
stupid message. Do you know what is a stupid message when you send an
Email? It says the mail box is full and has no space to take your Email. Are
you kidding me !!!!!! So someone has a company, she has an Email address she
has registered publicly but she does not check it to a point of being full?
How do you get in touch? Better yet how do you do business without being in
touch? And by the way this includes government ministries and agencies as
well. Uganda cells are too expensive to reach and from any country, but 3/4s
of Uganda cells have a message The number you have reached cannot be
reached at this moment -Try latter Really do you know how many
countries we can do business with and can be reached?
These are not failures made by Museveni but by the very same failures we saw
in Bugiri hospital where people do not care about today to fix for tomorrow.
No one instructed you to establish a business in Uganda you made that
decision yourself, honestly communicating to people is of value to you. I
have no reason sitting in a conference of investment people and Uganda gets
pointed out as the only country with no communication in 2014, honestly I
dont. Yes you can decide to live in a zoo so called crapy country but the
rest of the world is moving on and very fast thank you. And at the time you
will wake up from Malwa Kwete Omuramba and women selling their body as I
have seen on a Utube tonight of a woman that refused to get out of a motel
for the client she was pimped to has ran away before paying, the rest of the
world is going to be 5,000 km from Ugandan and Ugandans. At the end of the
day you will hurt. Did you know that Uganda business people do not have
business directory? I just leant it today. Well if you work in Kikuubo and
you have a cell from UTL and tomorrow you will have a cell from a different
provider how do you register that business?
Can some idiot out there open an office in a home, put 5 land lines and the
rest of you fools register them as your company numbers with one secretary
permanently employed and paid, at a very nominal fee each?
Or you still need The World bank to do it for you as well?
Geeeeeeez !!!!!!!!
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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