[Connecting West Africa] Improving profitability

The day kicked off with a panel and interactive roundtables on how to manage costs without reducing quality of service. The participants highlighted the importance of balancing capex and opex, outsourcing and energy strategies. The role of regulators was also mentioned as crucial to support operators in offering affordable communications services to end-users.

The audience represented stakeholders from the telecommunications sector across the region: MNOs, regulators, OTT players, satellite operators and vendors from countries such as Senegal, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Niger, Mali, Benin, Chad, Ghana, Congo, Cape Verde and more.

Events in the Com World Series - which Connecting West Africa is part of - will continue looking at how Africa can embrace data networks and services to serve the continent's needs.