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TowerXchange’s first visit to Myanmar was in 2014, when the tower market was just beginning to take shape with the opening of the market to foreign operators. In March 2017, TowerXchange’s Head of Asia hit the ground in Yangon and took 13 meetings over the course of the week, connecting with industry stakeholders who are…...

Keith Boyd has been a leader of the African tower industry since before there was a tower industry! Over 15 years spanning Plessey, Venture Communications and Eaton Towers, Keith has become a respected authority on South African towers, and he’ll again be hosting a round table devoted to the country at the forthcoming TowerXchange Meetup…...

Laurent Viviez has over 15 years consulting experience in telecoms. For the last 5 years he’s focused on Africa, working with most of the major telcos, equipment and handset manufacturers on projects as diverse as pricing, distribution, m-payments, cost-efficiency, and network outsourcing. In the tower space, Laurent has worked for several large operators on network…...

The first quarter of 2018 hasn’t seen a huge amount of deal activity, but the past few months have laid the foundations for potential shifts in the European landscape with towercos, broadcast towercos and mobile network operator portfolios coming to market, and more IPOs mooted for 2018.   In the broadcast vertical, the dust is… Read more »

Over 30 tower transactions of scale have been completed in the sub-Saharan African market and independent towercos now own 59,801 (or 41%) of the region’s estimated 146,609 towers. The vast majority of the region’s towerco owned towers are owned by four players, American Tower, Eaton Towers, Helios Towers and IHS Towers (figure one) although a…...

2,396,136 of Asia’s 3,054,019 towers are owned or operated by towercos representing 78% of the total inventory of assets. Headlines for the region have been dominated by the ongoing shakeout of the Indian market as MNOs undergo mergers and tower assets are monetised in a bid to lower debts. Through this, towercos are confronting –…...

China is home to the world’s largest towerco China Tower Corporation (CTC), as well as a fragmented but substantial ecosystem of 200+ independent towercos. CTC’s much anticipated IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has been delayed to 2018 (Q2 or Q3) from its original target of 2017 year-end, with a goal to raise US$10bn…....

Who owns the world’s 4.4mn investible telecom towers and rooftops? What is a tower company and how have different business models evolved in different regions? Drawing upon TowerXchange’s exclusive and unique research, this article sizes and forecasts the future of this dynamic new US$300bn infrastructure asset class. Once upon a time, telecom towers were depreciating…...

Formerly a sleeper market characterised by the cosy duopoly between Globe Telecom and Smart (PLDT), things became interesting in the Philippines in late 2017 when President Rodrigo Duterte decided to open up the country’s telecommunications sector by inviting foreign investors/players to challenge the dominance of the incumbents. This was followed by a proposal for a…...

While not a tower market that typically generates a lot of buzz, edotco has been steadily growing its tower portfolio and team in Cambodia since its entrance in 2012. Six years into its journey, we catch up with Phillip Wong, edotco’s country leader and Chief Regional Officer for Growth Markets to find out the latest…...