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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…...

2 February 2021 MENA Egypt: American Tower pulls out of Egypt licence process Egypt’s new towerco licencing process has lost the interest of American Tower following discussions around local shareholding and towerco coverage targets. Four other international towercos remain engaged in the process, but the requirement for a shareholding by Egypt Towers and for aggressive… Read more »

COVID-19 is inevitably driving data demand in Asia, creating an unprecedented need for both capacity and coverage across the continent. The imminent arrival of 5G in many regional markets will just continue pushing that surge. Telecom infrastructure has never been more important and with over 70% of the continent’s towers in the hands of Mobile…...

The level of dynamism in the European tower industry has reached new heights; Q3 2020 MNO results were awash with comments about tower strategy and a quick look at the continent’s major players reveals that most, if not all, are closely assessing the best course of action for their tower portfolios (see figure four). At…...

On 12 November, CK Hutchison and Cellnex announced that they had reached a series of agreements whereby Cellnex would acquire 24,600 CK Hutchison towers across six European countries. The deal, for a total consideration of €10bn will involve Cellnex paying €8.6bn in cash and providing €1.4bn in new Cellnex shares (equivalent to a 5% stake…...

This short paper is written as a discussion vehicle for towerco and ESCO CFOs. It seeks to outline Huawei’s understanding of the marketplace for towers and energy. It offers an insight into the future of telecoms in the short to medium term and positions the value that new generation products and services can have when… Read more »

Last July, TowerXchange hosted its first virtual Meetup Americas, gathering 491 global telecom infrastructure experts for two days of discussions and knowledge sharing. Senior representatives from Altán Redes, Telesites, Mexico Tower Partners and Torrecom led an interactive, virtual roundtable discussion that analysed the main trends, future opportunities and hurdles that the towercos are facing in…...

The Central and Latin American telecom infrastructure landscape is undergoing considerable changes and the unfortunate expansion of COVID-19 across the region has proved again that CALA can’t achieve social and economic progress without a considerable investment in telecom infrastructure. While M&A activity and demand for new builds have slowed down in some countries, MNOs have…...