Crouching Telco’s Hidden Dynamism
by Scherzando Karasu How a new breed of Emerging Market Telco’s are using the skills gained at home to expand internationally - shaking up the telecoms landscape and bringing wireless communications to ever more people. While 2009 has been a tough year for the Telco industry worldwide a handful of emerging market companies has been posting some outstanding performances. With eleven of the twenty best performing companies this past year coming from the emerging markets and with four of the top seven drawn from amongst these regions. Recent rapid emerging market economic growth in India, China, Latin America and the Gulf states has seen an assemblage of regional mobile operators emerge. Using the skills gained at home to expand internationally - shaking up the telecoms landscape and bringing wireless communications to ever more people. Having navigated the recession better than their peers in the developed markets these companies have expand rapid...