Moderated by Gonzalo Cornejo, now CFO at Mexico Tower Partners, the Mexico roundtable at the TowerXchange Meetup 2018 focused on future tower market growth expectations related to the continuing rollout of wholesale 4G network ALTÁN Redes, as well as AT&T deployment plans, permitting challenges and currency volatility, all in the light of the recent Presidential elections.
The impact of the Presidential elections
While the round of CALA Presidential elections is creating uncertainty in Mexico and elsewhere, the newly elected leftist candidate Lopez Obrador (who hadn’t been appointed at the time of the TowerXchange Meetup Americas) is an advocate of expanding mobile coverage beyond urban centres, into rural and semi-rural areas.