Makerere University Kampala, is to scale down its bandwidth from the current 21 Mbps (Megabits per second) to 6 Mbps due to lack of funds. Bandwidth controls the amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time. A higher bandwidth means a lot of data can be transferred within a short period of time. But the university has failed to sustain the current bandwidth due to lack of funds. The university's public relations officer says the bandwidth scale down will make the Internet services much slower thus affecting data communication.