Universal Access Workshop, 1st 4th March 2005, Nairobi

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Universal Access Workshop,1st 4th March 2005,
Nairobi

• E-USAGE REPORT UGANDA
• Irene Kaggwa-Sewankambo
• Technical Officer Licensing and Standards
  (UCC)
  

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CONTENT

• Background
• Scope of the survey
• Findings

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BACKGROUND

• 75 funding from UCC
• Why
• Rural Communications Development a UCC priority.
  Disaggregated information needed for planning
  e.g. equity of access
  
• Information for assessment of rural
  communications development interventions
  
• Starting baseline for long term planning

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SCOPE OF THE SURVEY

• Planned 60 enumeration areas with 1800
  questionnaires
  
• 58 enumeration areas and 1770 household of which
  only 1623 interviews were successfully completed
  
• Specific for UCC, 56 institutional questionnaires
  (CBO/NGO, schools, health units
  factories/businesses)

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FINDINGS DEMOGRAPHICS

• About 90 of Ugandas population rural
• Among 83 of rural population and about 50 for
  urban population, household head earns below 55
  per month
  
• A higher percentage of females (53) to males in
  the country
  
• About 54 below 15 years, about 90 below 45
  years and 3.1 above 60 years
  
• 97.7 of the rural and 59.9 of the urban
  populations have no access to electricity in
  their homes

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FINDINGS GENERAL PENETRATION OF SERVICES
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TYPE OF HOUSEHOLD PHONE

• Mobile phones are the predominant means of
  communication

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MOBILE SERVICE

• 2 of rural population and 16.6 among the urban
  population owned mobile phones with an overall
  penetration of about 3.
  
• In terms of income, 0.9 in the lowest income
  group 6.2 and 15.9 in the middle and high
  income groups. There is significant usage among
  the lowest income group
• Almost all the phones (99.7) are prepaid
• Individual public phone expenditure in the rural
  areas is typically shs 1,500 per month, while
  that in urban areas is typically 2,500

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USE OF PUBLIC TELEPHONE SERVICES

• Public and private pay phones are the principal
  means of communication for the majority of
  citizens.

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COMPUTER PRESENCE
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CONNECTION TO INTERNET
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INTERNET

• The national penetration of computers is 0.7.
  Based on these figures there are only 182,000
  computers for the 25 million people in Uganda
  
• The typical monthly bill for home internet
  connections is about Shs 85,000/
  
• 4.2 and 0.1 of the urban and rural populations
  respectively have email addresses, about 60 of
  which are free subscription and the rest paid
  subscription or office. The national penetration
  is 0.4, or about 104,000 people out of a
  population of 26 million.

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CONCLUSION

• The survey underscored some of the challenges
  Uganda still faces in achieving equitable
  universal access.
  
• The survey did inform the proposed new telecomm
  sector policy in Uganda in which human
  development targets have been recognized as the
  driver for infrastructure targets.

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Thank you