Sector review: Telecoms

Telecoms connect our digitised world. Developments in this sector facilitate the increasing digitisation of the globe and the proliferation of innovative mobile-connected technologies. With its decisive role to play in overall technological disruption, the telecoms sector is, naturally, one of the most competitive industries. To stay relevant, companies continually make significant outlays of capital and innovate, so the telecoms business is capital-intensive.

Characterised by high competition and high capital requirements, the sector is arguably among the most disrupted. The basic…