Christmas season has come early to Ugandans as calling has been made more affordable than ever before. The drastic reduction of call rates to 50% from the country's giant telecom companies that is MTN, UTL, Zain and Warid made it possible. This war in pricing was sparked off by Warid Telecom last week who slashed the calls to 50% across all networks, therefore a call per second is only 5shs.
On this remark, market leader MTN Uganda and Zain, the second-largest telecom company by subscriber numbers, announced separately yesterday that they would cut their prices to Shs3 per second for calls to other networks, in response to Warid’s rate of Shs5 per second announced last week.

According to Daily Monitor, the new prices represent significant savings for mobile phone customers across the country who have been paying an average of Shs10 per second on telephone calls across networks.

MTN Marketing Manager Isaac Nsereko told Daily Monitor yesterday that its customers will be charged Shs320 per minute to all networks for the first 10 minutes of calls each day. Thereafter, calls within the MTN network will be charged at Shs160 per minute while calls to other networks will revert to Shs320 per minute.

UTL Chief Marketing Officer Mohamadou Konkobo said: “Our tariffs have been revised to give our mobile phone users the opportunity to communicate at cheaper rates and for longer periods. At this time, any saving is welcome to our customers and we would like to be part of their saving.”

Zain official communication indicated that the price cut would be available to pre-paid and post-paid customers and would include three free on-network texts. The firm has also cut international call costs to India, China, USA and Canada to Shs299 per second.

Warid CEO Madhur Taneja, whose firm sparked off the price war last week, said he was pleased that other telecoms were responding to the price reduction. “Reducing call rates is the way to go and the consumers will get value for their money and I hope that every player in the market does so,” he said. Officials from the other mobile telephone companies; Orange, Smile and i-Telecom were not available for comment yesterday.

I must say thanks to Warid Telecom who stated the lowest call rate, now every ugandan can afford calling. No more beeping

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