Helios Towers partners with Multi-Links Telkom

Helios Towers (HTN), regarded as Nigeria’s foremost infrastructure sharing and managed services provider in Nigeria and Multi-Links Telkom, the pioneer CDMA operator, have signed an agreement that allows them to fully manage network services in Lagos.

Jeffrey Hedberg, CEO of Multi-Links Telkom, who spoke on the managed services contract, said that the outsourcing of the management of company’s passive infrastructure is part of the company’s growth strategy to reduce Opex.

Hedberg explained that the collaboration benefits include fully managed tower sites, reducing their capital investment, operating expenses and expediting their rolout.

“We will replicate the value we have created with co-location business in managed services solution, with immediate Opex reduction, and ensuring 99.9% uptime at all times”, Fazal Hussain, CEO of Helios Towers.

Helios Managed Services leverages on their existing expertise to supply additional services to Multi-Links.

The company has previously managed over 1200 base transceiver stations (BTS) across Nigeria. Helios Towers’ managed service is a third-party facilities management, monitoring and maintenance service offering to wireless network operators.

Multi-Links became a wholly owned subsidiary of South African-based Telkom in January 2009.

By Okoro Chinedu