Abstract
Mobile operators are changing their network strategies. Some now lease aerial sites from third parties or share facilities with other operators. This report examines how these changes create new opportunities in the wholesale market.
Table of Contents
Key messages
Expanding the range of wholesale infrastructure services
- Defining the mobile network
- Regulatory developments
- Network options for mobile operators
- Advantages and disadvantages of each option
Mobile tower leasing companies
- Definition
- Composition of tower rental prices
- Differentiation strategy
- Competition
- Challenges
- Players
- Mobile lease towers: mergers and acquisitions
- Trends
Mobile network-sharing agreements
- Definition
- Types of network-sharing agreements
- Composition of prices for tower-sharing agreements
- Challenges
- Examples of mobile network agreements
- A new way to structure mobile assets
- Additional trends
Table of figures
- Figure 1: Mobile network
- Figure 2: Responsibilities for different types of MVNO
- Figure 3: Mobile network options
- Figure 4: Mobile network ownership versus mobile network options
- Figure 5: Accumulated sum of mobile towers/rooftops acquired
- Figure 6: Possible mobile network options
