ISATConnecting Africa to What’s Next.
ISAT is a digital infrastructure and services company building intelligent connectivity for people, businesses and communities across Africa.
- 5G & Broadband
- Satellite
- Cloud & AI
- Enterprise Data center
Planned scale
Built for national scale.
10M+
Customers targeted across services
15,000+
Sites, current and planned
20,000+
Kilometres of fibre planned, access and backbone
$3B+
Planned investment, 2025 to 2030
Figures reflect ISAT’s plans and targets and are subject to regulatory approvals and market conditions.
The sweet spot of 5G
Spectrum forces a trade between how far a signal reaches and how much it carries. One band refuses to choose.
700 MHz
Low band
Travels furthest and goes through walls, but every user shares a narrow pipe.
3.5 GHz
n78, the working band
Enough reach to cover a city from ordinary mast spacing, enough spectrum to carry fibre-class speeds. This is where iSAT plans to build.
26 GHz
mmWave
Extraordinary capacity over a single block, and stopped by a pane of glass.
- High capacity
- Wide coverage
- Low latency
- Suited to fixed wireless access, campus networks and private 5G
Concept illustration
The same band planned to cover a city could also replace the cable into a home.
Three phases. One nation.
A thirty-six month build, sequenced so that each phase will pay for the next.
Lagos · Abuja · Port Harcourt · Ibadan
0 to 12 months
Phase 1
Dense 3.5 GHz build across the four cities that carry most of Nigeria’s data traffic, anchored on new metro fibre.
- Lagos
- Abuja
- Port Harcourt
- Ibadan
First 12 months, planned targets
- Commercial launch in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Ibadan
- Core 5G network infrastructure
- Enterprise and government connectivity
- Initial fixed wireless access services
- Strategic fibre integration
- AI-enabled network operations centre
- Initial edge computing infrastructure
What will help us deliver
Regulatory support
Investment-friendly environment
Infrastructure collaboration
Innovation & R&D
Security & resilience
Local content & jobs
Planned investment areas
Where the build will focus.
5G network deployment
Planned rollout of dense 3.5 GHz coverage across priority cities.
Fibre & backbone expansion
Planned metro and long-haul fibre linking every phase of the build.
Edge & data centres
Planned facilities placing compute closer to where it is needed.
Cloud platforms
Planned regional cloud capacity for enterprises and public services.
AI infrastructure
Planned training and inference capacity for research and industry.
Private 5G & enterprise
Planned dedicated networks for factories, campuses and sites.
Digital education
Planned connectivity aimed at classrooms and remote learning.
Cybersecurity & trust
Planned security operations to protect the platform and its users.
ISAT ONE™
ISAT ONE — Building infrastructure for the AI era
Our planned cloud, data-centre and AI infrastructure platform is being developed to support secure, scalable digital services for enterprises, governments and technology ecosystems.
Concept illustration
Cloud infrastructure
Planned regional cloud capacity, designed for data residency and compliance across the markets we serve.
AI and GPU computing
Planned training and inference capacity for research, industry and public services.
Edge computing
Compute planned beside the radio, so latency-bound work will stay local.
Cybersecurity operations
A planned round-the-clock security operations centre to defend the platform and its tenants.
Network operations
A planned control plane to watch radio, transport and core across every site.
Financial-sector cloud
A planned isolated environment, designed to meet the controls Nigerian banks and regulators expect.
What a national network is worth
Independent build-out of this scale could change the arithmetic of every sector that depends on connectivity.
Projected impact
$30B to $50B
Potential contribution to GDP by 2030
3M to 5M
Jobs that could be supported, direct and indirect
2x to 3x
Expected improvement in internet speeds for households and businesses
$5B to $10B
Potential annual productivity gains
Projections are estimates based on ISAT’s planning assumptions and are not guarantees of future results.
Six sectors, one network.
Drag sideways to see where the capacity goes first.
Manufacturing
Planned private 5G on the factory floor: machine telemetry, automated inspection, no cabling.
Agriculture
Planned soil and weather sensing across large holdings, with yield models running at the edge.
Education
Planned campus-wide connectivity and remote teaching designed to hold up in a full lecture theatre.
Healthcare
Imaging planned to reach specialists in seconds, and consultations that aim to reach rural clinics.
Government
Public records and citizen services on planned in-country infrastructure.
Retail
Planned payments, stock and delivery systems designed to stay up through market-day peaks.
Let’s build digital freedom together.
Operators, governments, lenders and enterprise partners: the build is open to collaboration at every layer.