List of mobile network operators in Uganda
This is a list of mobile network operators in Uganda: Customer base. , there were an estimated 20.4 million mobile subscribers out of an estimated population of 39.6 million; a 51.5 percent penetration rate. By March 2018, the number of mobile phone users had increased to 24.8 million, a 70.9 percent penetration rate. As of June 2020, the number of mobile telephone customers were estimated at 25.5 million, as reported by the Daily Monitor newspaper. That figure had increased to 26.5 million at the end of September 2020. As of 31 March 2017, Uganda  had the 18th highest Internet usage rate in Africa (out of 58 countries). The country had 13,023,114 Internet users out of a population of 41,652,938, bringing the Internet penetration rate to 31.3 percent. As of September 2020, Uganda recorded 20.1 million Internet users, out of an estimated mid-year population of 41.58 million, bringing internet penetration to 48.3 percent, nationwide. Market share. The table below illustrates the market share of each of the major mobile network operators in the country, as of March 2021. When Africell exits Uganda, as expected, after 7 October 2021, a total of 3.3 million customers  (approx. 11.7 percent) of the 28.3 million mobile subscribers in Uganda will be up for grabs between the remaining four telcos.