Country profile: Guinea
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MTN Group sold its Guinea subsidiary to the Guinean government in December 2024, and the state is currently looking to sell its investment on to other operators, with Axian reportedly interested in taking some or all of the stake. MTN’s operation was in need of investment to catch up with other operators – to illustrate, the company owned under 1,000 towers in the country compared to 2,700 in Orange’s Guinea portfolio – with a figure of $100 million quoted by consultants in the market.
2025 may well bring further international collaboration. The country’s digital minister Rose Pola Pricemou was spotted at Mobile World Congress 2025, where she was holding bilateral meetings on topics including new data centre construction and potential e-government solutions.
On the infrastructure development side, $60m of World Bank funding as part of the WARDIP regional development programme arrived in late 2023, complementing a recent deployment by Huawei of FDD massive MIMO on the Orange Guinea network. There is currently a 400km fibre backbone in the capital Conakry, and the Guinean government has announced its intention to interconnect all government ministries and institutions using this network.
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