POP Africa · Nigeria
Towers for coverage. Fibre for the backbone behind it.
POP Nigeria works in two services. Antenna sites: towers, power and access, shared by several licensed mobile operators on one structure. And fibre optic: the routes that carry traffic between sites, towns and the national network. We build the infrastructure. The operators bring the network.
The problem
Tens of millions of Nigerians still live outside usable mobile coverage. Industry estimates put the number above 23 million, and the Federal Government's own Project BRIDGE has counted more than 33 million still offline. In July 2026, 2G was still more than a third of the mobile market by generation.
The reason is rarely technical. In a thin market, the revenue a single operator can expect from one remote site does not cover what that site costs to build, power and keep running. So the site is never built, and the community stays where it is.
Shared infrastructure changes the arithmetic. When the structure, the power and the transport belong to a neutral owner and several operators use the same site, the cost is carried between them and the site becomes viable.
Behind every site there has to be a route. Nigeria is now building one at national scale: the Federal Government's Project BRIDGE sets out 90,000 km of new open-access fibre, a programme of about $2 billion. Towers and fibre are two halves of the same job, and POP works on both.
Coverage and programme figures above are public industry and government figures reported in September 2026. They describe the market, not POP's own network.
What we do
Two services, one network underneath.
/ ANTENNAS
Antenna sites
Tower sites designed from the first day for several tenants: site selection, land and community agreements, civil works, the tower, and power systems that hold where the grid does not. Licensed operators mount their own radios; we own and run the site under them.
/ FIBRE OPTIC
Fibre optic routes
Backbone and metropolitan fibre that carries traffic between sites, towns and the national network. Route survey, civil works, cable, splicing and operation, built for open access so that every operator can use it.
How we work
Start where it can be proved.
A large network is built out of small stages that each stand on their own. We build the first one, run it, train the people who will keep it running, and only then multiply it.
Own the position first
The site, the agreements and the permissions come before the financing and before the builder. Without them nothing that follows is real.
Build one, and run it
A first site, complete and operating, is worth more than a plan for a hundred. It proves the cost, the power design and the demand at the same time.
Train locally
The people who maintain a site should live near it. We train them on the first build, and they train the next ones.
Fill the site
A second and a third operator on an existing structure need no new civil works. That is where a shared site earns its keep.
Multiply
Once one site is proved and staffed, the same design repeats. Growth becomes a question of logistics rather than of invention.
POP Africa
POP Nigeria is part of POP Africa, the infrastructure line of POP Global.
Antenna sites and fibre optic infrastructure, shared by licensed operators.
Antenna sites and fibre optic infrastructure in the Democratic Republic of Congo. popdrc.com
POP Global has provided telecom and finance services for more than twenty years. pop.global
For investors
Take part in a specific site or a specific route.
The next stage opens POP's antenna sites and fibre route sections to private investors, one identified asset at a time, inside a closed community with full transparency on each asset's build and operation.
Operators, site owners, communities and partners.
If you need coverage somewhere it does not exist yet, that is the conversation we want.