Nigeria's telecommunications sector, the connective tissue of a 75-trillion-naira economy, finds itself caught between the country's hunger for connectivity and an operating environment that makes delivering it far costlier than almost anywhere else on earth. Operators power thousands of sites with generators at six to ten times the cost of grid electricity, repair thousands of kilometres of fibre damaged by construction and vandalism each year, and guard infrastructure that in more stable markets needs no guarding at all. The tension between some of the world's lowest tariffs and some of its