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Jan 16, 2025 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
Vantage Towers, TOTEM, Orange, O2 Telefónica and the Saarland University of Applied Sciences announced the first 5G motorway cross-border connectivity project on 15 January. The project is known as “5G Autobahn to Autoroute” (5G A2A), and will connect the cities of Metz in France to Saarbrücken in Germany, covering a 60-kilometer stretch. Construction will begin in early 2025 with completion scheduled for the end of 2027.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
The history of the Myanmar tower industry is a turbulent one. Just eight short years ago, there were no towercos on the ground and buying a SIM card was a prohibitive privilege. However, Myanmar’s digital landscape began to change in the following years up until 2015 when entrants like Telenor and Ooredoo were granted licences and an independent regulatory body created to facilitate a competitive and healthy tower market.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
Frontier Tower Associates has joined the consolidation party in The Philippines by signing a deal to acquire CREI's Philippine towerco. It was widely anticipated that following the MIDC-PhilTower merger other investors would look to exit the crowded Filipino tower market and CREI are the next to leave the market. Subscribe to our Newsletter TowerXchange's last site estimate for CREI was for 415 towers.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
CelcomDigi renewed its strategic partnerships with EDOTCO, Edgepoint Infrastructure, D’Harmoni and PDC Telecommunication at TowerXchange Meetup Asia on November 26, renegotiating its key terms to future-proof its infrastructure. As part of Malaysia's push for digitisation the MNO has been working on a nationwide network integration and modernisation project.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
Mongolia is home to four MNOs – G-Mobile, MobiCom (KDDI), SKYtel and Unitel – and 4.4mn mobile connections with a population of 3.2mn. Almost half of Mongolia’s population is located in the capital Ulaanbaatar, which homes 1.45 million people and the majority of the telecom infrastructure.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
IHS Towers has agreed to sell its Kuwaiti business back to Zain Group, more than five years after its pioneering sale and leaseback deal ignited the Middle East's towerco industry. The terms of the transaction value IHS Kuwait at US$230mn, implying a Adjusted EBITDA multiple of 14.2x.The towers were acquired at a valuation of US$165mn in 2019, in which Zain retained a 30% stake in the new operation.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
Thank you to those who attended in Kuala Lumpur this week. More detailed write-ups of our sessions and discussions will follow, but as the TowerXchange team returns to the office we share our top takeaways from the event. Subscribe to our Newsletter Consolidation isn’t only happening at mobile operators, Altius has consolidated the Indian market and the MIDC-PhilTower merger is the first of more deals to come in The Philippines.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
Vantage Towers announced that it will host the network equipment of LoRaWAN IoT company Netmore Group across Portugal. LoRaWAN, or low power wide area network, sensing technology equipment will be hosted on Vantage Towers sites to support Netmore Group's Network-as-a-Service offering as it expands and densifies its network in the region.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
Malaysia’s unique approach to 5G has taken another step forward. In October 2024 the Malaysian government announced the award of its second open access 5G network to the country’s smallest MNO, U Mobile. Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) will continue to operate the first open access network as it has since May 2023. Four MNOs - Maxis, U Mobile, YTL and CelcomDigi – have taken an equal 16.28% share in DNB, leaving the Ministry of Finance with an approximate 35% stake in DNB).
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
towerxchange.com | Matt Edwards
APWireless, backed by Radius Global and EQT, is facing allegations of hindering the UK’s 5G rollout by increasing lease rates for towercos. Vodafone, EE, O2, and Three accuse APWireless of exploiting a business model where they purchase leases from landowners and charge higher rents to operators. Discussions of land aggregation normally do not leave the pages of TowerXchange, but in this case it has been reported in The Telegraph, a UK newspaper.
