14 results
- 8 Dec 2009
Helios Towers Africa Secures $350m equity for Expansion
Helios Towers has signed $350Million equity financing contract with Global Investor Group to rollout services to other African countries. The investing group comprised of Soros Strategic Partners LP,…
- 23 Mar 2021
Airtel to Sell 1,229 Towers To Helios for $108m
Airtel Africa has sealed an agreement to sell 1,229 towers to Helios Towers plc for $108m. The telecommunications tower companies to be sold are in its Madagascar and Malawi markets, Airtel said in a…
- 15 Jul 2015
Helios Towers Africa Appoints New CEO
Helios Towers Africa, one of the leading, independent telecommunications towers companies in Africa, has announced the appointment of Kash Pandya as its new chief executive officer and director, with…
- 10 Mar 2016
IHS to Acquire Helios Towers Nigeria
IHS Holding Limited, the largest mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and Helios Towers Nigeria Limited, the pioneer of tower infrastructure…
- 26 Jun 2018
IHS Halts $10Bn IPO over Concerns for 2019 General Elections
IHS Towers Ltd. has postponed an initial public offering (IPO) that would have valued the company at as much as $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, because of concern that a…
- 11 Mar 2012
Gains of Managed Services
Operators are constantly faced with vandalization and theft of their equipment. All the operators both Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) have had…
- 15 Jun 2010
Banks, Others Embrace Collocation to Reduce Cost
Banks have begun moves to co-locate their masts in commercial cities across the country to reduce operational costs and stave-off pressures from various authorities, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can…
- 19 Oct 2009
Telecom Operators Occupy 1,200 Collocated Sites
Some 1,200 collocation sites have sprung up across the country as more telecommunications companies embrace the cost-efficient solution that provides optimum performance for their equipment and…
- 24 May 2010
AURDA to Decommission Single Base Stations
Abuja Urban Renewal Development Authority in collaboration with telecommunications operators is to decommission base stations that are not co-located by more than two operators in the capital city,…
- 21 Apr 2021
Airtel Secures $500m Loan to Repay €750m Bond
Airtel Africa Plc has secured a new $500 million loan with a group of relationship banks to partially refinance its €750 million bonds maturing on May 20, 2021. The banks are Bank of America, BNP…
- 3 Dec 2017
Reps Wade into Feud between NCC, Telcos
House of Representatives committee on Telecommunications has asked the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); IHS Nigeria Ltd and SWAP Technologies & Telecoms Plc to within two weeks’ resolve…
- 1 Jun 2009
W.Afri.Tel Exhibition, WAFICT Congress Begin
The West African International Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology Exhibition (W.Afri.Tel), along side West African Information and Communications Technology (Wafict) Congress…
- 13 Dec 2012
Starcomms Holds Shareholders Briefing on Capcom’s Deal
Starcomms Plc will this morning (Thursday) start hosting a series of shareholders' meetings to present the structure of the proposed $210 million investment in the company by Capcom. The meetings,…
- 1 Nov 2012
Capcom to Inject $210m in Starcomms
Starcomms Plc has inked an agreement with Capcom Limited, a major equity investor in the proposed merger of Nigeria's three Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operators to provide Starcomms with a…