According to the company’s media manager Sharon Kuku, this innovative solution aims at enhancing colleagues and partners’ ability to work and share information in a secured way as it relies on the strength of cloud-computing.

She explains that My Office manages emails, contacts, calendar all on one screen and also includes web-hosting and company domain name registration thus promoting a more professional image of companies on the Internet and have higher chances of linkages and partnerships.

Kuku adds that My Office also provides up to 4 GB of personal storage for documents, images, sound and video files where a person can exchange text messages instantly and send files of up to 1G during a conversation to multiple users.

She says My Office groups professional services normally used by large corporations, at a price that is affordable by small businesses, adding that this innovation gives an opportunity to colleagues to work remotely and communicate with their company as if they were in the office.

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Ugandans to interact with those online via phone sms

The company in a statement today said the email SMS service enables Orange customers to receive and reply email from any mobile phone, from anywhere, using SMS.

“With email SMS one does not have to rush to a computer and does not need to have an internet connection to read or reply an email,” the statement says

Orange customers can subscribe for the service, text emailsms to 141 and follow the instructions to activate their email address.

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Yesse Oenga Celetel Uganda Managing Director

The Managing Director of Zain Uganda, Yesse Oenga today launched the 200 Uganda shillings recharge card to enable Zain subscribers buy airtime at the lowest rates.

He said research in the telecom consumer market had shown that affordability was a key factor in increasing access and usage of mobile telecommunications in Uganda, which prompted Zain to reduce the amount of money someone needs to have in order to make a phone call.

Oenga said Zain’s strategic 200 shillings airtime scratch card will allow customers to make a phone call for at least a minute, thus availing more communications options for the customer.

Both Zain, MTN Uganda, Uganda Telecom, Warid Telecom and Orange Uganda have been having 500 shilling recharge card as the lowest airtime card a customer can purchase.

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Zain Uganda on Monday announced it is offering 25 minutes to any of its subscribers who load 500 Uganda shillings, and an additional 30 free short message service or sms to other Zain subscribers.

The offer dubbed “Zain Kika” s so far the lowest of the daily load and call for free packages that Uganda mobile phone companies are offering.

Started by Warid Telecom as Pakalast where the company offered full day free Warid to Warid calls for any subscriber who loaded 2,000 shillings per day, the same package has been adopted by MTN Uganda, Uganda Telecom and Orange Uganda, with Zain the latest on the bandwagon.

MTN Uganda asks its subscribers to load 3,000 shillings and get 60 minutes of calls to MTN numbers within 24 hours, while Uganda Telecom offers free calls to Utl subscribers for extra airtime offered after a subscriber loads a particular amount of Utl airtime.

The five Mobile telecommunication providers in Uganda have been rolling out promotion after promotion aimed at tapping and retaining subscribers in a surely heating up mobile telephone industry.

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Orange Uganda

France owned mobile telecommunication giants Orange Uganda have introduced video calls in the Ugandan market to enable callers to see who they are talking to.

In a message to customers today, Orange said its subscribers now have a chance to make video calls on the orange telephone network.

Orange says their Video Calls will cost subscribers 290 per minute and 7 per second.                                       

Orange Uganda will be the first telecommunication company in Uganda to introduce the service in an increasingly competitive mobile telephone environment.

Orange Uganda came in a Ugandan mobile telephone market already dominated by MTN Uganda, Zain Uganda, Warid and Uganda Telecom and launched a number of products including free calls to Orange phones and fast mobile internet.

Two other companies Telecommunications companies have been licensed by the Uganda Communications Commission to provide mobile phone services in Uganda.

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