Africa’s leading telecom infrastructure provider, IHS Nigeria Plc, is set to commission a new batch of around 100 of its collocation sites across the country this month. This batch will complement the existing sites of IHS and will continue to grow its network of sites available for operators all over the Federation.
The sites which are located in eleven new states, including the FCT, form part of the company’s plan to rollout more than 500 sites in the next few months. These sites would be available to telecommunications operators, internet service providers, as well as banks and companies for their private networks expansion.
IHS, an ISO9001-2008 certified company was granted a license by Nigerian Communications Commission In 2008, to provide site leasing and sharing services. Under this model, the company builds/operates telecommunications sites and makes them available to various telecom operators under a sharing model. This formula saves the operators considerable amounts of money in Capital Expenditure (Capex) and Operational Expenditure (Opex) and allows them to focus on quality issues and network coverage. Apart from this, Collocation helps in reducing environmental pollution as infrastructure sharing will reduce the number of generators emitting carbon into the environment. This service is seen by the stake holders in the industry as an excellent way to relieve telecom operators of the headaches of site management.
Currently, IHS operates hundreds of sites for collocation services across the country and has achieved huge success by signing up several leaders of the industry to its services.
The company which was set up in 2001 has been carrying out the business of infrastructure deployment and management for various telecommunications firms and has been a staunch advocate of collocation in order to drive down prices of telecom services for the utmost benefit of the general public. IHS is currently present in several African countries including Ghana, Sudan and Tanzania and is the recipient of many awards for innovation. I HS (Nigeria) plc is a publicly traded company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange
