Makerere University Partners with Airtel to Provide Zero-rated Mobile Access to Students

Last year, Makerere University undertook to reach out to a number of telecommunication companies in the country in a bid to cultivate the possibility of providing zero-rated mobile access to all its sites and digital platforms, to both the students and stuff. One of these companies was Airtel.

This move was motivated by the desire to enable students access the University’s electronic resources during the pandemic when the University library and other university resources were out of bounds to Students. This was owing to the fact that the University had been closed on presidential directive, due to the raging pandemic.

This initiative was also inspired by the habitual hefty costs of internet access in the country, that were further aggravated by the nation-wide lockdown that had been instituted to check the drastic increase in Covid-19 infections.

Recently, this initiative crystallized and Makerere University, through its Directorate for ICT support issued a communique to all students to register their Airtel contacts for the zero-rated mobile access to all Makerere University Websites. This ‘zero-rated access’ basically means that one does not need data to access the websites. What one needs is a good network signal. Principally,  all that the student needs to do is register their Airtel number, their name and student number as well. 

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