China and the EM Ugly Contest
Our bearish outlook for 2016 predicated on the rising risk of a “sudden stop” for China and uncontrolled FX depreciation across EM is unfortunately...
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The Urge to Merge (China Moves)
In our recent post we talked about the likelihood of regulators allowing in market mergers within emerging markets. While this traditionally would...
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The Urge to Merge - EM Telcos Look at Consolidation
The rise of data usage in Emerging Markets delivers increased benefits of scale to operators. Capex and spectrum holdings become key weapons to...
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Chinese Telecoms: A merger of China Telecom and China Unicom would improve competitive dynamics.
China is looking to improve SOE returns. Regulators are pushing for a level playing field among the Chinese telcos. However, scale at China Mobile...
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Emerging market fibre/cable operators (Altnets) are likely to outperform local wireless peers
Fibre/cable firms (Altnets) have a strong growth dynamic in most EMs and the potential to create value through wireless entry using small cells...
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