COmpany Profile
INFRATEL was incorporated by the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) under the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) in August 2018. The core mandate of INFRATEL is to consolidate, own, manage, and commercialize all government’s passive and shareable ICT and telecommunications Infrastructure. INFRATEL as a national telecommunication infrastructure company provides wholesale telecommunications infrastructure as a service to MNOs, ISPs, Government organizations and other licensed entities. INFRATEL holds a network licence and a service licence which allows the company to operate a national optical fibre transmission network, national telecommunication towers, and data centres to serve its customers. INFRATEL is resourced with 1282 towers spread across the country to serve Telecom operator’s wireless needs, for both mobile and Internet connectivity. The tower colocation services are fully resourced with backup power, cooling, security, ground and tower space.
INFRATEL operates the three national tier III data centres. The data centres have a huge capacity for colocation services, storage services and platform services. Several operators in Zambia have started realising that setting up their infrastructure in the data centre gives them freedom of operation and reduces their CAPEX. Equally, the benefits of a local cloud outweigh those of an International cloud through reduced latency and pricing. INFRATEL shall further be resourced with more than 10,000km national optic fibre backbone network, both in the current state and in the future expansion. INFRATEL will therefore run the most extensive backbone fibre network in the country. This ties in well with INFRATEL’s vision of making ICT services more accessible in the country.
Through the bundling of all services, INFRATEL is therefore able to offer services at competitive rates that support business growth, and continuity and encourage delivery of services to underserved areas. INFRATEL can bundle tower colocation services with leased connectivity services and with data centre colocation services. INFRATEL, therefore, stands out as a carrier of carriers, service provider of other service providers and an enabler for ICT penetration in the country.