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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…...

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…...

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 »