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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…...

Towerco penetration across Asia is not as high as one might think and the market still presents considerable opportunities for growth. 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… Read more »

A keynote panel session at TowerXchange’s 2019 Middle East and North Africa Meetup brought together six towercos to discuss how best to serve the diverse markets of the region. Over the course of an information-packed hour we heard from Ted Manvitz, CSO of IHS Towers, Suresh Sidhu, CEO of edotco Group, Kash Pandya, CEO of…...

While 2018 saw deal flow in European towers slow a little, the foundations were laid for a very busy 2019.  Although Altice was the only MNOs which sought investment for carved out towers in France (Hivory) and Portugal (OMTEL), Telia, Telenor and Vodafone all set the wheels in motion to create internal ‘towerco’ entities which…...

2018 has been a successful and dynamic year for edotco at home. The infrastructure innovator achieved a 30% year-on-year growth nationally and the acquisition of Yiked Bina has driven its tenancy ratios up to 1.8x. While the company continued to deploy traditional macro sites, over 50% of its new builds last year were infill lamp-poles…...

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…...