InfraCo, a spinoff from Zimbabwean telco Econet Wireless, has targeted continued expansion of its tower business in Zimbabwe while deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise energy consumption at its base stations.
The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange-listed InfraCo said on Tuesday that, during the quarter ended May 2026, it expanded its use of AI to improve predictive generator maintenance, optimise fuel utilisation and enhance the reliability of its base stations.
Zimbabwe often experiences crippling power outages, forcing operators to incur additional costs by running diesel generators.
The rollout of an AI Fuel Manager solution has reduced energy consumption while improving availability and uptime, said Tatenda Alice Ngowe, company secretary of InfraCo, in a trading update.
Furthermore, InfraCo is advancing an AI-enabled Remote Monitoring System and a digital Twin initiative that enables digital monitoring and remote maintenance of base stations.
These AI tools are intended to increase the efficiency of the company's technology platforms.
For the remainder of the year, InfraCo is prioritising continued expansion of its tower portfolio and accelerating the solar power programme under its PowerCo subsidiary.
Apart from powering InfraCo's towers with solar energy, PowerCo also supplies other commercial users.
The company has commenced construction of Phase 1 of a 100MW solar farm that will supply renewable energy to developments within Econet Tech City, which will include a data centre and the solar power plant in Harare.
The Tech City, which will be developed over five years, forms part of InfraCo's property segment, which supports the deployment of tower sites and other infrastructure.
During the quarter ended May, InfraCo deployed 90 new base stations.
Dr Douglas Mboweni, CEO of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, recently said the company is retiring 2G and 3G sites and reallocating the spectrum to support 4G and 5G services.
Econet, Zimbabwe's largest mobile network operator, accounts for much of the country's growing data traffic through its deployment of LTE and 5G base stations.
InfraCo reinvested 17% of revenue generated into funding capital projects, Ngowe said.
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