Telecom Egypt has announced a partnership with Huawei Technologies to develop Africa’s first green tower. The two visualize an eco-friendly, integrate
Telecom Egypt has announced a partnership with Huawei Technologies to develop Africa’s first green tower. The two visualize an eco-friendly, integrated solution to provide mobile networks via utilising environment-friendly towers made of Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP). The tower will serve as the optimum steel alternative, which causes high emissions of carbon dioxide.
Scope of work on the project involves construction of an approximately 18 m high tower that will feature a special camouflage fence made of environment-friendly materials, supported by integrated wireless access solutions and a green solar energy system. The tower is characterised by its high resistance in severe environmental conditions, such as corrosion due to the exposure to chemicals and high temperatures.
Tech- based building
According to Adel Hamed, Managing Director and CEO of Telecom Egypt, the tower will be tech-oriented. It will have modern technologies for wireless access devices, such as the technology of antennas integrated with signal amplifiers, which contribute to reducing the energy consumption of one site by about 40%, if compared to traditional sites.
“These modern technologies also contribute to improving the signal quality by about 20%, when compared to regular antennas, which will further result in reducing the number of stations to be installed, enhancing the preservation of the environment, and hence achieving the aimed-for sustainable development. the implementation of this type of mobile site in Egypt is unprecedented and has also underscored the efforts done by all those in charge of the project, and their capability of implementing the entire site in a timely manner and a systematic way, as per the best international quality standards that have to do with the green concept solutions,” said Adel Hamed.
He also added that Telecom Egypt relies on state-of-the-art versions of operating software that support the latest features, pertinent to energy saving, such as the feature of turning off signal amplifiers for some frequencies during low load hours, which helps in reducing energy consumption by an average of 24%.