MTN (the largest cell carrier here) recently announced that they had joined the East Africa One Network Area, which provides “affordable tariffs” to calls in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Sudan. This is huge; calls to these countries used to be at exorbitant rates; it’s ridiculous the airtime we went through at GAFCON in Nairobi. So, this is a win-win for everyone in East Africa (except Burundi and Tanzania; I’m not sure why they aren’t participating).
So, since this is such a good thing, how odd is it that I am sad that my phone no longer displays “MTN-Uganda”? It was fun being in Rwanda and seeing the MTN-Rwanda. For some reason, I feel somewhat bereft.
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