29 new towers switch on rural mobile coverage across Africa

In rural corners of Africa where a phone signal can mean a market price, a money transfer or a call for help, NuRAN Wireless switched on 29 more mobile towers in October. The sites are part of a contracted backlog of more than 5,000 towers with operators Orange and MTN across eight countries, aimed squarely at the coverage gap: about 55% of Sub-Saharan Africa's people live in rural areas, and 13% remain outside mobile-internet coverage altogether, according to GSMA figures. The towers run on low-power equipment backed by solar, battery and hybrid power through the company's NuEnergy platform, built for places the grid does not reach.

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