Eisenstein was a co-founder of American Tower in 1995, after which he has founded and been CEO of Concourse Communications, Optasite and most recently Grupo TorreSur, the largest privately-held towerco in Brazil. Jimmy is also a member of the TowerXchange ‘Inner Circle’ advisory board.

Addressing towercos’ most pressing challenges, all-in-one solution

Perspectives on a new generation of energy storage solutions

Expectations and reality of doing business in frontier markets

A battery manufacturer’s perspective on the tower industry and the adoption of green energy solutions

Reinforcing its leading position in Latin America and beyond

Africa needs towercos able to economically deliver special structures, rooftops and single tenant towers

Using time attendance monitoring and watermarked photos to reduce reliance on ‘guesstimates’ and focus on data

A comparison of the cost per tower realised by the Etisalat, MTN and Airtel Nigerian tower sales Why American Tower likes Nigeria Which towerco has acquired, or will acquire, towers in which country from Airtel? Who now owns Nigeria’s towers? The last of the dominoes has fallen in the Airtel African tower sale; American Tower has acquired 4,800 towers in Nigeria for US$1.05bn. Congratulations to Airtel on raising over US$2.5bn in the sale of passive infrastructure in Africa, a transaction that has driven Africa’s ‘Big Four’ towercos to scale, and which has seen American Tower complete their first transaction on the continent since 2011. By Kieron Osmotherly, CEO, TowerXchange. kosmotherly@towerxchange.com.

Site power monitoring and data analysis for informed decision-making

Ericsson advocate revenue sharing models in which all parties get a share of margin

CCE, through its pending merger between CER and CPS, made the breakthrough providing fixed price, guaranteed availability energy services to towers in India; can they make the same impact in Africa?