Uganda loses 5 million internet users as a result of Social Media Tax

2019-2-18 16:40

Half-way through 2018, Uganda introduced a Social Media (OTT) tax which required Ugandans to pay a tax if they wanted to access services such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and many others. It turns out, based on released data by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), the tax has had a significant impact on the number of internet users in the East Afrikan country resulting in a drop of 3 million internet users over a 3 month period.

What is also interesting when one looks at the data released by the UCC is that approximately only half of the internet users in Uganda were actually paying the Social…

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