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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…...

A lot has changed since TowerXchange’s last visit to Yangon back in March 2017. Over the course of a year, Myanmar’s tower industry has seen a notable shift as the market has welcomed a new operator as well as several new towercos, and witnessed a game-changing tower transaction. I took a long flight to Yangon…...

Following the recent announcement of the cancellation of edotco’s acquisition of Jazz’s 13,000 towers in Pakistan, TowerXchange has updated our Pakistan tower market study to include a deep dive into what this means for Pakistan’s fast-growing mobile market and what opportunities may come to the fore next.  While towercos have been licensed in Pakistan since…...

It is often assumed that European tower portfolios are ‘complete’ and, if anything, decommissioning is needed to consolidate high levels of parallel infrastructure put up in the 1990s and 2000s when coverage was a critical market differentiator. However there are several reasons for new build in Europe, and these will drive a growth of around… Read more »

Vodafone are the latest in a snowballing number of European MNOs to state their interest in a tower sale, hoping to reduce their €31bn debt burden by raising as much as €12bn through the sale of 55,000 towers across the continent. They follow European MNOs Altice, Sunrise, Bouygues, KPN, Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom, Turkcell and Telecom…...

Last week, TowerXchange visited OCK’s central office in Yangon to find out about the latest activities of the Malaysian infrastructure leader in one of the most promising, dynamic markets for towercos in ASEAN. OCK’s CEO in Yangon, Omer Chappelart, sat down with us and offered a detailed overview of the group’s initiatives in the country,…...

One month on from China Tower Corporation’s (CTC’s) IPO, TowerXchange reflect on the valuation, future risks and opportunities for the world’s largest towerco. Speaking to financial commentators and analysts, while enthusiasm remains intact that the towerco business model has been successfully introduced into China, critical differences in CTC’s pricing models and cash flows, and uncertainty…...

We’ve all heard the hyperbole about edge computing, including suggestions that 5G, IoT-enabled use cases will drive data closer to the edge, creating hundreds of edge data centres co-located with cell sites. But what will an edge data centre really consist of? How much power and space will it need? What are kinds of sites…...