Africa’s connectivity challenges are well known. What’s less discussed is the precision work being done to solve them not with headlines, but with hard infrastructure deployed across oilfields, offshore rigs, seaports, underserved towns, and areas.
In July 2025, Fieldbase Services Limited hosted a three-city stakeholder series in Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Abuja, gathering clients, global partners, and industry leaders to reframe the continent’s infrastructure story not as a future vision, but a current, continent-wide undertaking. The Lagos edition, held on the 15th of July at Radisson Blu, Victoria Island, featured a dynamic lineup of sessions that blended global insight with in-house technical expertise.
Started with a strategic vision rooted in engineering and execution
Opening the Lagos edition, Fieldbase Managing Director Chinedu Abanobi delivered a keynote titled “Fieldbase: Today and Tomorrow”, outlining the company’s evolution, mission, and next strategic horizon.
“We were founded in 2018, we are a very young company… I used to work for a UK shipping Business and we had ships operating in this part of the world. Whenever our ships turned up here, I always heard them say they couldn’t find good service in that part of the world, for me, that didn’t sit well, I was moved to create a company that would be able to provide world class service delivery reaching anywhere in the world.”
Today, Fieldbase supports:
- Over 300 vessels and offshore platforms with managed internet connectivity
- A growing customer base of over 4,500 enterprise clients across Africa
- A portfolio spanning satellite internet, maritime electronics, remote surveillance, and threat detection
The company has also scaled across six countries – Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Togo, and the UK with a 50+ person team and strategic global partnerships. In 2024, Fieldbase became an authorized Starlink reseller, further embedding itself at the center of Africa’s evolving connectivity stack. But the keynote wasn’t just retrospective it was forward-looking.
Chinedu Abanobi outlined its development focus areas:
- Community Wi-Fi networks for rural access
- Connectivity intelligence for underserved areas
- Telemedicine infrastructure for frontline healthcare delivery
- Remote construction monitoring for hard-to-reach project sites
“Our vision is to become the industry leader in developing and integrating technology to solve Africa’s infrastructure problems,” Chinedu said. “We will continue to leverage our engineering strength and market understanding to deliver practical, impactful solutions and connectivity.”
From satellites to private networks: Building Africa’s always-on backbone
That vision took on deeper shape in the sessions that followed.
Shaun Hatrill, Senior Manager of Enterprise Sales at SpaceX, delivered a standout presentation titled “The Future of Enterprise Connectivity,” where he unpacked how Starlink’s satellite solution is unlocking connectivity across remote industrial sites, transforming communication reliability across hard-to-reach locations and mission-critical industries.
Sumit K. Gehani, VP of Sales at Druid Software, spoke on Private LTE and 5G networks, breaking down their role in secure enterprise operations where public networks fall short. “These networks put control and compliance back in the hands of the operators,” he emphasized.
Oluwasayo Oshadami, Director of Solutions Architecture at Equinix (MainOne), brought the cloud conversation to the edge. “Resilience is now an architectural priority,” he said, highlighting how edge infrastructure is enabling real-time response in volatile environments.
Ugo Umeseaka, COO of Redtech Limited, showcased a Remote Wellhead Monitoring system, using IoT sensors and telemetry to reduce oilfield risk and improve operational efficiency.
Making the infrastructure tangible: Fieldbase is actively in the field
The sessions moved from theory to deployment by the Fieldbase team.
Jonas Enebeli, Head of Enterprise Solutions, presented Starlink Layer2 deployments both inland and offshore, offering real-world case studies that showed how Fieldbase builds uptime into some of Africa’s most remote and risk-heavy sectors.
Solutions Development Engineer Anointed Olatunde introduced Fieldbase’s Maritime Surveillance platform, which supports real-time vessel tracking and sea operations management, a vital capability for West Africa’s increasingly regulated blue economy.
Finally, Frontend Developer Anna Cotterel showcased the platform’s current features and introduced the future roadmap, which includes notification and alert systems, router password management via the portal, multi-user access levels, and billing integration.
The session gave clients a clear view of how Fieldbase is advancing its digital tools, highlighting our ongoing commitment to user-focused innovation. From Engineering to Community: The Human Side of Connectivity
Across all three cities, the event experience went beyond the technical. Stakeholders shared meals, regional music, and informal conversations that revealed a broader truth: infrastructure is about people first.
By ending the event in warmth and connection, Fieldbase reinforced the values underpinning its growth local knowledge, trust, and the relationships that make long-term deployment possible.
The Takeaway: Africa isn’t just catching Up – It’s designing differently
Africa’s infrastructure narrative has long been written in the language of deficiency. Fieldbase is offering a new dialect one that centers resilience, engineering realism, and practical innovation.
The 2025 stakeholder series made one thing clear: Fieldbase isn’t just enabling connectivity. It’s constructing the digital backbone that will support Africa’s next generation of industries, healthcare, logistics, and communities.
From offshore platforms to inland construction sites, seaports to cloud portals, Fieldbase is proving that Africa’s infrastructure doesn’t have to mirror the West to succeed. It only has to work in Africa, for Africa.
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Fieldbase at a glance:
- Founded: 2018
- Active in: Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Togo, UK
- Over 4,500 enterprise clients
- 300+ vessels/platforms supported
- 50+ staff across 6 countries
- Starlink Authorized Reseller (since 2024)
- Focus Areas: Community Wi-Fi, Rural Connectivity Intelligence, Telemedicine Infrastructure, Remote Monitoring
