Network builders: LTE costs will transform the cell tower biz in 2016 The vast cost of keeping up with demand for mobile data is intensifying the pressure on mobile operators’ capex budgets and accelerating their moves to improve their infrastructure cost base. Major agreements to share passive and active cell site equipment are becoming commonplace as regulators ease up on previous restrictions, …
I've never heard of "capex" used for anything but the ugly giant lurking behind your opex. And although the entry in Wikipedia is something else I'll wager a big bag of nuts that not many readers here read this news item thinking of the "Kerala State Cashew Workers Apex Industrial Co-operative Society"
Most telcos know that they aren't really good at telecommunications, and they have outsourced the works on the network and most of the planning, so why not sell the network.
They are also last on customes retention and satisfaction, having also outsourced these services.
They also no longer bill their customers.
My suggestions is that they should just be a brand that resides in bahamas. And, of course, outsource marketing and the directors.
There, closed shop.
Once you get into capex/opex discussions you're fudging the numbers.
Unless you've got some new tech which doesn't need them and you're secretly offloading them how can renting sites be cheaper than owning them in the long run? Do you need to scale your geographic coverage up and down?
The requirement to do expensive stuff doesn't evaporate when you outsource it.
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