While 80% of Uganda’s population lives in rural areas, 70% of communication services are in urban areas. Only 2% of rural people access mobile telecommunications unlike 16.6% of their urban counterparts. Only 4% of Ugandans access grid power. “It’s rather unfortunate because rural areas produce more than 80% of Uganda’s wealth,” Dr. Fredrick Tusubira of Makerere University ICT support center says in a paper titled 'Uganda: Challenges of the digital divide and telecommunications sector'.