Brussels, 23 February: The European Wireless Infrastructure Association (EWIA) welcomes its 13th member, TAWAL. TAWAL Europe’s core activities involve designing, building, and managing consolidated telecom infrastructure facilities that enable state-of-the-art and modular connectivity.
“We are delighted to welcome TAWAL to EWIA. They bring to the association the intimate knowledge of three important European markets in Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia.” said Marco Patuano, Chairman of EWIA. « EWIA’s 13 members are now present in 23 European countries, including 21 EU Member States, with a shared ambition to better reflect, through the association, the commonalities and subtleties of the European wholesale wireless infrastructure market.”
“Having operated in the region since 2023, we are delighted for TAWAL Europe to join EWIA. We are looking forward to sharing best practices and knowledge with our fellow European members in order to positively contribute to raising standards in our industry.” added Emmanuel Léonard, Chief International Officer of TAWAL and director of TAWAL Europe.
About EWIA
EWIA is the European Wireless Infrastructure Association, the European trade association of neutral host TowerCos which provide open access to their shared wireless infrastructure. Our members invest in and operate wireless infrastructure essential to the delivery of mobile voice, wireless broadband, and other wireless networks. This ‘neutral host’ model is now the prevalent model in Europe, where our 13 members operate over 270,000 wireless infrastructure assets in 23 countries. We serve all mobile network operators (MNOs) and hundreds of other wireless operators enabling better communications for end users in the communities we cover.
EWIA advocates policies that facilitate and encourage network infrastructure investment and deployment with the goal of making advanced wireless broadband available everywhere for consumers, businesses, health care, public safety and the countless other sectors that rely on always-on wireless connections. This includes ensuring better and faster connectivity in rural areas.
About TAWAL
TAWAL is a leading ICT infrastructure provider with operations across five countries: Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Pakistan. TAWAL has a portfolio of 30,000 sites, including 5,000 located in Bulgaria, Croatia, and Slovenia.
