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You are here: Home :: Communication and Media :: Press Releases Press Releases | MiDCOM in the media Press Releases 21.07.2008 :: MiDCOM invests $3m in e-airtime MiDCOM Eazy, a subsidiary of MiDCOM, has invested $3m (sh4.8b) in electronic airtime loading technology. Read Full Story 27.05.2008 :: Nokia expands mobile-phone recycling initiative in Africa Nokia, the world's largest mobile-handset maker, announced last year that it would set up mobile-phone recycling collection centers in rural and urban areas across East Africa. The initiative is part of Nokia's environmental policy of reducing electronic waste. Uganda became the fifth African country to adopt the "take-back" campaign, following the February launches of the initiative in Kenya in East Africa and Nigeria, Senegal and the Ivory Coast in West Africa. Nokia has set up "take-back" collection points at all of its authorized customer care centers in those countries. In Uganda, MiDCOM and Simba Telecom are the authorized centers. "Nokia wants to ensure that the environment in which we do business is protected," said Nicholas Maina, Nokia East Africa's customer care manager, during the launch of the campaign in Kampala last week. "That is why we are asking customers who may not know how to dispose of their mobile phones and accessories to bring them to our care centers for safe disposal or recycling." From the collection centers, the discarded phones and accessories will be shipped to Europe for recycling. The company will only use recyclers that comply with Nokia's recycling standards, Maina said. Nokia has a recycling plant in Europe and is considering setting up a similar facility in Africa. The campaign is due to launch in South Africa and Cameroon next month. Electronic waste is expected to skyrocket as users upgrade electronics such as mobile phones and computers more often. 27.01.2007 :: MiDCOM Changes Face of Telephone Market In Uganda, Phone distributor MiDCOM has opened 250 outlets in two years of operation to dominate the mobile phone selling market in Uganda. Before MiDCOM came into the market, most Ugandans bought phones that were smuggled, had no warranty or were faulty. Some even flew to Dubai to get genuine phones. Full Story 9.11.2006 :: Uganda - MiDCOM Launches in Uganda The official launch of MiDCOM on Plot 26. Acacia Avenue was set to be something big and it lived up to its billing. MiDCOM was celebrating their status as the largest authorised distributor of Nokia phones in Uganda . The presence of the Nokia Senior Vice President, CMO, Nokia-MEA, Mr. Timo Toikkanen on October 31 attracted many of Kampala 's bigwigs. Source: New Vision 9 th November, 2006 For more: Click here |
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