Middle East and North Africa

Military-grade access control solution also integrates access logs with job ticketing to verify maintenance job ticket completion

The above bar chart shows an aggregation of owned towers AND those managed and marketed by independent towercos in each country of Africa.

A tour of Quintica’s Service Management Centre and an introduction to their OS3 SITE solution, built on Remedy

MTN continue to be linked with potential deal with American Tower in Rwanda

TowerXchange understands that towers in Senegal, Mali, Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau are all on the market. The operations are all affiliates of Sonatel Group, which in turn is 42.33% owned by Orange, and all trade under the Orange brand.

New licenses, acquisitions and upgrades in brief

Safety is everyone’s responsibility at African cell sites

A reshuffle at MTN and an interesting new appointment at SBA Communications

The importance of training site visitors, and of assessing and certifying installations, taking remedial action where necessary

The ‘go to guy’ of African towers introduces his Intrepid new venture

TowerXchange expects a deal to be confirmed in Egypt before the end of 2013

The risks and rewards for tower operators, and prospects for a tower transaction