XL Axiata’s US$270mn tower sale to Protelindo will strengthen Protelindo’s competitive position and improve XL Axiata’s leverage

Ausonia explain their switch from capex-only to offering a full opex solution to the market

‘Business as usual’ in the increasingly likely event of the O2-Three merger collapsing

On 28 April 2016, Turkcell’s Board of Directors announced that the company was initiating the process for an IPO of an undisclosed amount of equity in its infrastructure business Global Tower. Drawing upon discussions held at the Turkey roundtable at April’s TowerXchange Meetup Europe, we examine the Turkish market and Turkcell’s freshly announced IPO process.

WIG, Russian Towers, Arqiva and FPS Towers share their projections at the opening of the inaugural TowerXchange Meetup Europe

Yusoff Zamri discusses Cam Towerlink’s ground-breaking project to connect Angkor Wat

Oliver Coughlin shares insight the development plans of edotco Myanmar

Bolivia had an estimated population of 10.8mn people and 10.4mn mobile subscriptions at the end of 20151, giving a mobile penetration of 96% - the third lowest level of penetration in South America ahead of only Guyana (84%) and Ecuador (80%). Around 90% of subscribers have a pre-paid account, which ranks 2nd highest amongst the South American countries. Guyana ranks the highest with 96% pre-paid subscribers. There are three mobile network operators (MNOs) serving the Bolivian market (See figure 1). The largest operator, Entel, serves 4.9mn subscribers which equates to a market share of 46.9%. The second largest operator by subscriber numbers is Tigo (Millicom) which has 3.1mn subscribers (30.0%) and VIVA, the smallest of the three operators, serves the remaining 2.4mn (23.1%) subscribers.

Highlights from a new white paper released by Kaiser Associates’ telecom practice

A roundup of tower news across SSA and MENA

Insights from Cellnex’s keynote interview at TowerXchange Meetup Europe

The access control company discusses its high quality products and local know-how