Liquid Telecom completes Infocom takeover

LIQUID Telecom has taken over Infocom, an Internet service provider and announced a sh2b investment to extend infrastructure across Kampala, Mukono, Jinja, Masaka and Mbarara.

“We are setting up Metro towns in order to give these towns a network connection that will see their businesses access the kind of speed, reliability and affordability of Internet that users are getting in the capital Kampala,” said Hans Haerdtle, Liquid Telecom’s chief technical officer for East Africa. 

“E-business and governance are taking shape and, therefore, we need to incorporate the whole population into this frontier in order to realise balanced development,” he added. 

Liquid Telecom has increased the number of Points of Presence (PoPs) for its top performance business-focused Internet from 11 a year ago, to 30 in 2014 and upgraded all its existing PoPs with capacity ranging from one to 10 Gigabytes per second. 

Haerdtle said the continued expansion of Internet infrastructure in Uganda will improve the country’s economy. 

The average Ugandan Internet speed stands at 5.09 megabytes per second according to Internet World Stats (IWS).