Thank you to all the key stakeholders in LatAm towers who contributed to the success of the TowerXchange Meetup Americas, held in Orlando, 20-21 May 2014. 214 of the top decision makers involved in the transformation of the Central and South American tower industry gathered for two days of intensive networking, executive discussions and unparalleled business development opportunities.
The TowerXchange Meetup once more enticed its audience with its unique interactive format, a combination of panel discussions and small group roundtable breakouts structured to offer a complete overview of the LatAm telecom tower industry - from debates among C-level executives of major towercos and carriers to country-focused roundtables.
Roundtable discussions represented the core of the Meetup with 200+ participants engaging in strategic interaction, with the Chatham House Rule protecting confidentiality and enabling forthright exchange of views.
Thanks to its co-location with PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show, our selected audience of Directors and C-level executives from the Central and South American industry had a unique chance to be exposed to the mature ecosystem supporting the North American telecom tower industry. And our 15 exhibitors and 9 sponsors showcased their solutions and products to a crowd of 2000+ professionals from the American tower industry, as well as our VIPs from LatAm.
Thanks in no small part to the co-location of the TowerXchange Meetup Americas, the PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show achieved unprecedented 20%+ year on year growth, cementing the two events’ place in the tower industry calendar.
Next year’s TowerXchange Meetup Americas will be once more held in co-location with PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show, in Hollywood, Florida, 28-29 April 2015 and we recommend you contact us as soon as possible not to miss the only event of the year purely focused on the LatAm telecom tower industry. In the meantime, we will report and share with you some of the key findings we gathered at the Meetup. Over the next few pages, we are proud to present two editorials on the status of the regional tower industry - respectively focused on the large independent towercos and on the middle-market tier.
The Americas Meetup exceeded my expectations in terms of number of participants and the quality of the information that was available during the sessions. I would definitely attend again!- Eric Ensor, COO, Torres Andinas
The Meetup opened with TowerXchange’s forecast on the status of the LatAm tower industry, featuring a towerco breakdown by country, key transactions to date and an estimated tower count of assets owned by independent towercos. Our overview then focused on Brazil, Mexico and Chile with an in-depth analysis of major trends and characteristics of their tower markets. For our comprehensive research on these countries, please download past editions of the Journal here https://www.towerxchange.com/Publications
The presentation concluded with insights on the African and South East Asian industries in order to put the LatAm market into context and to give snapshots on the status of the tower business in key emerging markets such as Myanmar, DRC and Tanzania. If you’ve missed the presentation but attended our event, the slides are on your Acsys-branded pen drive.
As we prepare for the 2015 edition of the TowerXchange Meetup Americas, we continue our in-depth research with executives from the LatAm industry and we are delighted to include an exclusive interview with American Tower’s CEO LatAm, Olivier Puech, a case study on Colombia incorporating an interview with Torres Andinas’ COO, Eric Ensor and an editorial on the status of the LatAm energy market in this issue of our Journal.
In the meantime, TowerXchange’s footprint has reached out to Southern and South East Asia for which we’ll hold a TowerXchange Meetup on December 9 and 10 in Singapore, while we are working on the second annual TowerXchange Meetup Africa to be held in Johannesburg, 20-21 October 2014. Visit our website www.towerxchange.com for more information on our regional research and Meetups.
We’d like to thank everyone who trusted in us and joined us in Orlando and we look forward to welcoming you at the TowerXchange Meetup Americas 2015!
The TowerXchange Meetup Americas returns on April 28-29, 2015, taking place in Hollywood, FL. If you are interested in speaking at the event, please contact Arianna Neri, TowerXchange’s Head of Americas at aneri@towerxchange.com. For sponsorship and exhibition inquiries, please contact Annabelle Mayhew, our CCO, at amayhew@towerxchange.com.
I found the session content superb and the overall event quite useful for meeting with decision makers throughout the region due to the very high C-level to attendee ratio. - Jonathan Atkin, Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets, LLC
