Orange Uganda has entered into a 15-year passive network management partnership with Eaton Towers. The deal will see Orange Uganda’s outsource the operation and maintenance of its existing sites to Eaton Towers, while providing build-to-suit for new sites with a view to reducing costs and capital expenditure.
We first spoke with Alan Harper, CEO of Eaton Towers prior to AfricaCom 2010, shortly after the company secured its first African customer—Vodafone Ghana. Almost a year down the line, we caught up with him again to discuss how Eaton, and the business of tower sharing, is developing.
African tower management firm Eaton Towers said Monday it has secured equity funding worth $150m from Capital International Private Equity Funds (CIPEF), a private equity investor focused on emerging markets.
Tower management company Eaton Towers focuses exclusively on Africa, the region where its three founders have most experience. In this interview, one of those founders and the company’s CEO, Alan Harper, talks to telecoms.com about running a tower sharing marketplace in one of the world’s fastest growing regions.
Pan-African carrier MTN has followed Vodafone’s lead in Ghana, embarking upon a tower sharing venture with specialist firm American Tower Corporation. MTN Ghana and American Tower are to establish a joint venture, TowerCo Ghana, to be 51 per cent held by American and 49 per cent held by MTN, with the operator as the anchor tenant, on commercial terms, on each of the towers being purchased.
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