Middle East and North Africa
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ATC South Africa strengthens their position in one of Africa’s most investible tower markets -
Cost effective innovative solution has upto 8,000 hour service intervals, is cleaner, greener, quieter, and can use existing diesel supply chain; breaks even compared with DGs after approximately 15 months
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An interview with HTA’s Group Director of Sales and Marketing, Alex Leigh
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An edotco-commissioned report isolates the keys to tower market success
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An interview with Hotspot Network Limited COO, Charles Iyoha
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BMI View: IHS Towers and American Tower Corporation’s acquisition of Nigeria’s towers has enabled them to cement their positions as the leading players among Africa’s big four tower firms. If Helios Towers Africa and Eaton Towers cannot outbid their larger rivals for new assets in the remaining attractive markets, they may seek scale through a merger or become acquisition targets.
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The first potential tower sale and leaseback in the Middle East was mooted over a year ago, with Zain appointing Citigroup to advise on a potential tower transaction in two Gulf countries in early 2015. Mobily, Etisalat’s operation in Saudi Arabia was next to follow suit, appointing TAP advisors to look into a potential sale of their towers. Fast forward 12 months and Saudi Telecom Company are now joining the party – potentially putting all operator owned towers in Saudi on the market at the same time. TowerXchange take a look at the portfolios potentially for sale, examine the latest developments in the processes and explore who the likely bidders will be.
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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.
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Highlights from a new white paper released by Kaiser Associates’ telecom practice
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