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Communications Infrastructure
STE builds, operates and manages telecommunication towers and passive infrastructure in 16 high-growth African markets.
What we do
With focus on emerging markets specialist, STE has operations across Middle-East, Africa and the Levant. Our experience has provided us with over two decades of insight, extensive operational talent, and strong relationships with stakeholders that enables us to enhance our leadership position in existing and new markets. To deliver for our customers, as well as generate strong financial returns and growth, we draw on our key strengths:
The leading provider
The leading provider in the majority of our current markets, which we support with a high-quality asset base and service.
business model
A proven business model with high quality revenue visibility that is backed by long-term, contracts.
A track record
A track record of both organic and inorganic growth.
high quality service
An established history of delivering high quality service to our customers.
Founder-led
A founder-led, experienced management team with a differentiated operational skillset and supported by committed, seasoned investors.
benefits
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Why STE?
Local Presence
Innovative Solutions
Aligned with ISO Practices
International Partnerships
Over the past 20 years, our professional engineers have successfully delivered mega transformation programs in our fields of speciality: telecom, data centres, mobility and system integration across Africa. Our trusted advisors are leading the full cycle of commissioning, implementation, maintenance and project management.
Our Global Impact
We provide our customers, most of whom are leading mobile network operators (MNOs), with communications infastructure to serve coverage & connectivity to almost 100 Million people.
We provide our customers, most of whom are leading mobile network operators (MNOs), with critical infrastructure that facilitates mobile communications coverage and connectivity to almost 600 million people in nine countries in emerging markets.
With more than 40,000 towers in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, we are among the world’s largest independent contractors for build and operate, the resident company in 16 of our 29 markets, and the market leader in 8 of them, including in Middle-East & Africa.
We are also amongst the few independent multinational telecommunications infrastructure providers to concentrate exclusively on emerging markets and the prospects they present. Our focus is on growing organically and inorganically in existing and new markets. We are an infrastructure provider dedicated to engineering excellence, and we operate with this at our core. Today, we offer a wide range of telecommunications infrastructure services in our markets, including more innovative technologies like fiber connectivity and small cell capabilities.
Our core business model is based on building new towers for customers and colocation, and providing customers with opportunities to lease space on existing towers alongside current tenants. This is an inherently sustainable approach, given we promote infrastructure sharing to drive connectivity across our markets and invest in hybrid power solutions that reduce our emissions.
Our solutions help facilitate digital inclusion, which in turn offers significant potential for improving lives in the communities we serve. Through mobile connectivity, the populations of the markets we operate in are able to access important education, healthcare, employment, financial and other services.