What we build
Two services: the antenna site, and the fibre behind it.
Coverage needs both. A site with no route back to the network is a steel structure, and a fibre route with no sites along it reaches no one. POP Congo works on both halves, and owns what it builds.
Service 01 · Antennas
Antenna sites where the grid and the road stop
Across most of the country the difficulty is not the tower. It is getting materials to the site, powering it where there is no grid, and keeping it running when the nearest technician is days away. A site plan that ignores those three things is a plan that does not get built.
We size every structure for several tenants from the outset. A remote site that cannot pay for itself with one operator can with two or three, and reinforcing a mast after it is standing costs far more than building the capacity in at the start.
- Site selection against settlement patterns, terrain and existing coverage, not against a map alone.
- Land and community agreements negotiated locally and documented properly.
- Off-grid solar and storage sized to measured load and to the rainy season, not to the average day.
- Logistics planned with the site: road, river or air, whichever actually reaches it.
- Backhaul per site: fibre where a route exists, microwave where there is line of sight, satellite where nothing else reaches yet.
- Local maintenance by people trained on the first build and living near the site.
Service 02 · Fibre optic
Fibre along the roads, for cities and between them
Fibre is what turns a set of sites into a network. In the cities it carries the traffic of businesses, public institutions and the mobile networks themselves. Between cities it is the backbone that everything else depends on.
The most efficient moment to lay fibre is when a road is being built or rebuilt. Ducts placed in the road works themselves, before the surface and the structures are closed, cost a fraction of what trenching costs later and are protected by the road for its whole life. We plan fibre routes with road programmes rather than after them.
We develop fibre infrastructure projects with State partners, and we design every route for open access, so that every licensed operator can use it on the same terms.
- Corridor survey and design, including crossings, bridges and the coordination with road works.
- Construction: ducting, cable, splicing, chambers and testing.
- Open access for all licensed operators.
- Operation and maintenance after handover, for the life of the route.
How the two fit
One owner for the site and the route.
An antenna site's running cost and reliability both depend on its backhaul. A fibre route's value depends on how many sites and towns it serves. Planning them together is what lets each one earn its keep: sites placed along the fibre get the best transport, and the fibre carries more traffic because the sites are there.
POP Congo is an infrastructure owner and operator. Spectrum, subscribers and retail service belong to the licensed operators who use our sites and routes.
Working with us
Who this is for
/ OPERATORS
Mobile operators and ISPs
Coverage and transport where building alone does not add up: a structure already sized and powered for you, and a route open to you, without the civil works or the land negotiation.
/ PUBLIC
State and provincial partners
National and provincial programmes need builders who then keep the sites and routes running. That is an operating commitment, not only a delivery contract.
/ LOCAL
Communities and site owners
A site brings coverage, and it brings work: construction, security and maintenance, staffed and trained locally.
Have a location or a route in mind?
Tell us where, and what is there now. That is enough to start.