Wholesale changes in mobile infrastructure

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

• 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