pawaPay incident

Performance degradation affecting Uganda Airtel services

Resolved after 14 hours 14 minutes, affecting Airtel :: USSD Deposit, on October 4, 2026.

monitoring Oct 05, 2026, 06:54 AM UTC

We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.

Started
Oct 04, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 05, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC
Duration
14h 14m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 04, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC

Affected components

Airtel :: USSD Deposit

Update timeline

  1. identified Oct 04, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC

    We have identified instability in Uganda Airtel services. We have escalated this to the MMO for resolution.

  2. identified Oct 05, 2026, 04:54 AM UTC

    This is a quick update to inform you that we are still experiencing degraded performance in our Airtel Uganda USSD deposit gateway, but we are closely following up on it with the mobile money operator. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.

  3. monitoring Oct 05, 2026, 06:54 AM UTC

    We are seeing improvements in success rates and will continue monitoring the incident.

  4. resolved Oct 05, 2026, 08:13 AM UTC

    The incident has been resolved. We apologise for the inconvenience.

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