Middle East and North Africa

Innovative solution is more cost effective, cleaner, greener, quieter, burns just about any liquid or gas fuel and breaks even compared with DGs after approximately 15 months

Targeting gated communities and less well off areas where data demand growth is highest enables Eaton to double the size of their South African portfolio

How to ensure what you see in the asset register and what you see in the field are exactly the same

As HTA’s tower count exceeds 7,800, diversification and scale helps attract US$630mn in new equity resources

BMI’s tower analyst Kenechi Okeleke bullish about tower market in Côte d’Ivoire

TowerXchange's analysis of the IHS success story - transforming from a regional BTS and managed services player into a continental market leader

With a population of 15.9 million1 people and with over half of Malawians living below the poverty line, Malawi is one of the most densely populated and least developed countries in Africa. The country is located in the south east of the continent, landlocked and surrounded by Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique. Compared to the rest of Africa, the Malawi telecommunication market is particularly under-developed. There were 5.56 million mobile subscriptions at the end of 2013, giving a low penetration rate of 35%. Relatively low subscriber growth of 2.3% is forecast for 2014, and is expected to taper off over subsequent years. More than 99% of the subscribers are prepaid users. A SIM registration programme is taking place in 2014 and, as observed in other SSA countries, this is likely to have a negative impact on subscriber figures.

And a further 31,000 towers are currently for sale

Increasing comfort with the towerco business model and pipeline of opportunities attracts a deeper pool of investors

Agence Ecofin reports that Djezzy has launched 3.5G services in seven provinces of Algeria. Meanwhile, Algeria Telecom’s mobile arm, Mobilis, is rumoured to be extending its business-oriented fixed-wireless LTE service to consumers. TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate, report that Mobilis have already deployed 200 ‘eNodeB’ sites across the country, with plans to install 2,000 LTE-enabled base transceiver stations by year end 2015.

Orange’s experiences with infrastructure sharing, QoS and BTS in partnership with IHS in Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire

Since inception NeXsysOne has been used at 200 projects, including Ooredoo’s ongoing rollout in Myanmar