Africa's leading telecommunications tower company announced on Monday that it had acquired a further 400 towers from Warid Telecom. The deal comes after Eaton bought most of France Telecom's Uganda tower network in a deal announced last week. Eaton will now be the owner and will maintain the towers while Warid and other mobile operators will be “long term tenants on the towers,” the company said in a press statement. Eaton Towers CEO Alan Harper said in the statement that they now had a leading position in Uganda, combining the two complementary networks of Orange and Warid, which cover the majority of the population. “Building on Eaton's successful operation in Ghana, where our customers include MTN and Airtel, Eaton will offer the best service to the telecoms sector in Uganda so that quality can be improved and coverage can be extended in a cost effective way,” Harper said. “Tower sharing is now becoming an essential strategy for African mobile operators with a need to reduce operating costs, reduce capex and offer focus on their core business of providing service for their customers. Eaton will continue to implement our strategy of investing in attractive tower sharing opportunities across Africa.” BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/g4swp Tags: Eaton, Mobile, Telecom, Towers, Uganda Section: East Africa, Tech
