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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…...

An audience survey at the 5th TowerXchange Meetup Asia proved again that Myanmar is the most attractive investible tower market in Asia, narrowly edging out Indonesia, India and China. In the last five years, the Myanmar telecom industry has evolved from a single stated-owned operator that monopolised an underdeveloped market, to a competitive and diverse…...

During the fifth edition of the TowerXchange Meetup Asia in December 2018, we engaged the audience through a live poll to find out what executives in the room thought about the Asian market, its future expansion and upcoming trends. Between 55 and 75 respondents voted in the poll and, given that the majority of people…...

The Italian market has always been at the forefront of towerco activity in the European market, and that trend looks set to continue into 2019. In the last few years we have seen one of the first European sale and leasebacks of scale, the sale of 7,377 Wind towers to Cellnex in 2015, and one…...

This article introduces the various tower company business models, sizes the market, and contrasts the differences in the tower industry from continent to continent. We conclude with a look at the future evolution of tower companies, distinguishing between vertical real estate ‘purists’ and diversified communications infrastructure providers. Once upon a time, telecom towers were depreciating…...

Towerco penetration across Asia is 78.9%, falling to 19.8% if one excludes China (100% penetration) and India (71.2%). From the positive moves towards infrastructure sharing in Bangladesh and the Philippines, to a new phase of deals and BTS activities in Myanmar, the region is ripe with changes and excitement. TowerXchange is once again offering its… Read more »

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 players to challenge the dominance of the incumbents. This was followed by a proposal for a…...

During my latest trip to Asia, I headed to hectic Hanoi to take a closer look at the evolving Vietnamese telecom and tower industries. Just a two-hour flight from Yangon threw me into a completely different market structure where military-backed Viettel and its MNO competitors take the lead while towercos play supporting actors. This editorial…...