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The journey started when we applied to the Growth Africa accelerator program 2017. Initially the application process looked a little complicated because it involved answering a few provided questions that clearly would explain what our startups were all about. I was lucky to be part of the Global ICT team that made it to the final list with ten other startups. The final eleven startups were all expected to attend a five day boot camp that took place at the Innovations Village Ntinda – Kampala. After having gone through the interviews as individual startups, it was now time for the eleven of all the finalists to come together and open up to one another as we exhaustively revisited our startup purposes, visions and missions in a much broader way. Being new to other members from other startups, day one was about introduction of both the growth Africa team and the particular startup team members that were present. At this stage we hardly knew what we were getting into...

International Airtime Top Up™ , an easy, secure and affordable top up and recharge service provider has introduced a new product to its portfolio of services. The new product is called Uganda Top Up , a service that enables all those registered with MTN Uganda Mobile Money accounts to send airtime across all major local networks in Uganda including, UTL, Airtel, Vodafone and Africell. The recipient gets top up amount instantly on their network. The sender and receiver get a SMS confirmation on their phone number. Customers do not need to sign up or login to use the service. There is no internet connection required. MTN Uganda Mobile Money and USSD charges may apply. This new service is expected to greatly ease communication with family, friends and businesses on the move, due to the fact that society can now pay using their MTN Uganda Mobile Money via mobile phones to send top ups to any prepaid phone number across other networks in Uganda we cover. The service is also expect...