The Evolution of the Telecom Infrastructure Business

Telecommunication operators, traditionally rich and laden with financial resources, have never left much room for investment within their sector. Thanks to the impact of regulation, competition and technology, this will no longer be true. Is this an evolution that can open new prospects for potential investors in telecom infrastructures? Is it a positive evolution for investors outside the telecom business? What forms will new opportunities take? To answer these questions, we will start in the second section by analyzing the evolution of the telecom market. It is growing fast, with more people all over the world who have more connected devices which are transmitting more data with higher peaks of network utilization for uses that are increasingly critical. But all this incredible potential creates a challenge to telecom infrastructure that cannot be solved inside the traditional industry framework. In the third section we will discuss how fixed mobile networks and their hybrid forms have evolved and will continue to evolve to match this rapidly changing market. The fourth section describes how companies like Google/Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon, whose business is tightly linked to the evolution of telecom infrastructures, are moving to influence and channel industry transformation. In the fifth section, the investment prospects for telecom operators are analyzed in detail, especially in Europe, where regulation is taking a new direction to speed up investments and demand, while some geopolitical issues are increasingly conditioning every player in this scenario. Finally, through an in-depth exploration of changes in fixed and mobile networks, we identify and evaluate the potential investing options in the industry.