The Committee on Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) and National Guidance in Uganda has called on the National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) to reduce the cost of internet. Members of the committee said the high cost of internet offered by the authority is making it difficult to do business during their meeting with NITA-U officials on Wednesday, 05 April 2023.
According to Hon. Moses Magogo, the Chairperson of the Committee, internet is one of the biggest drivers of socio-economic transformation and its inaccessibility affects all sectors of the economy. He also noted that private players are providing cheaper internet than NITA-U, contrary to claims that NITA-U’s internet is the cheapest on the market.
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Richard Obita, the Director, Planning, Research and Development at NITA-U assured the MPs of their target to reduce the cost of internet further from the current US$70 for each megabit per second to US$35 for each megabit per second. The committee recommended that all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) pay for the internet services provided by NITA-U under the National Backbone Infrastructure (NBI) project.
