Telco ops in West Africa, 2026

Tower maintenance in West Africa is shaped by three constraints: the cost and theft of diesel, the distance between sites, and the unreliability of the data link back to the NOC.

Every operational decision is downstream of those three. The tools that work here are the ones that assume all three are hostile and design around them.

That is why offline-first and genset-aware are not nice-to-haves in this market. They are the table stakes.