Rakuten Mobile buys into the towers business
Rakuten Mobile is acquiring a stake in towers operator JTower, a move that should help it to roll out its network more quickly and cost-effectively.
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Telefonica turns to blockchain to help telcos flog towers
Telefonica and partner Atrebo have unveiled plans to use blockchain to gain greater visibility and control of telecoms towers, something that will be very useful for any party looking to offload these types of assets.
Liberty Global reportedly looking at Belgian asset sale
The industry’s next towers deal could come in Belgium, where Liberty Global is reportedly mulling offloading passive infrastructure owned by its Telenet unit.
Singtel sheds towers, adds data centres
Singtel has brokered a deal to sell off its towers in Australia and unveiled a strategy to build new data centres outside Singapore.
INWIT talks up wooden telco towers but there are drawbacks
Italian infrastructure company INWIT has installed a wooden mobile tower in northern Italy to be more sustainable, but we’re unlikely to see masses of them dotting our skylines any time soon.
Veon flogs its Russian towers for nearly $1 billion
Netherlands-based operator group Veon has joined the broader trend by selling its mobile towers in Russia to passive infrastructure specialist Service-Telecom.
The industry is largely happy with how 5G has come about
Eight out of ten telecoms professionals participating in a recent Telecoms.com survey said 5G has either met or exceeded their expectations.
It’s towers up, small cells down for buoyant Crown Castle
Crown Castle has upped its full-year guidance for the second time this after posting a strong set of quarterlies on the back of 5G growth in the US.
UK says Cellnex/CK Hutchison towers deal threatens competition
The UK’s competition watchdog is proposing to take its investigation into Cellnex’s planned acquisition of CK Hutchison’s towers to the next level unless they can give it a good reason not to.
Cellnex completes €1.6 billion Polish expansion
Ambitious Spanish infrastructure specialist Cellnex has completed its acquisition of Polkomtel Infrastruktura.
Cellnex answers regulatory questions to close Italy towers deal
Cellnex has closed the Italian portion of its European towers mega-deal, adding over 9,000 sites to its growing European footprint.
Telstra and Telia join tower sale trend, brokering highly similar deals
It’s all go in the telecoms towers space, with two remarkably similar deals worth billions of dollars coming on both sides of the planet.
American Tower flogs more of its European business
The latest deal in the action-packed telecoms towers sector sees asset manager Allianz Capital Partners taking a half-billion-euro stake in American Tower’s European division.
Telefonica lops €4 billion from debt as towers deals close
Telefonica has lopped the best part of €4 billion from its debt pile in the space of a couple of days by closing the sale of towers in Europe and Latin America.
Vantage Towers aims to generate €1 billion in revenues this year
Vantage Towers aims to generate revenues of around the €1 billion mark in the current financial year, a modest increase on its pro forma turnover in full-year 2021.
Bidders line up for Optus’ A$2 billion towers sale
Australia’s telcos have not moved as quickly as their European counterparts, but 2021 is shaping up to be the year of towers sales down under.
Orange mulls buying back infrastructure assets to boost TOTEM
Orange is reportedly considering buying back an infrastructure asset it sold almost two decades ago to boost its recently-created TOTEM towers business.
Helios moves east with $575 million Omantel site acquisition
Africa-focused telecoms infrastructure specialist Helios Towers has expanded to the Middle East with the acquisition of 2,890 sites from Omantel.
American Tower does €1.6 billion deal with CDPQ to fund Telxius buy
American Tower has agreed to sell a big chunk of its European business to Canada’s CDPQ to help it fund the acquisition of Telefonica’s towers business.
New telecoms infrastructure investor spends £300m in Czech Republic and Norway
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched investment trust, has picked up its first two investments, a mobile towers business in the Czech Republic and a fibre network in Norway.
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