Deutsche Telekom does towers deal and sets up investment fund
Deutsche Telekom and Cellnex have combined their telecoms towers in the Netherlands in a deal that marks the latest passive infrastructure monetisation move from a major European telco.
Deutsche Telekom and Cellnex have combined their telecoms towers in the Netherlands in a deal that marks the latest passive infrastructure monetisation move from a major European telco.
Telefónica has agreed to sell its towers portfolio in Europe and Latin America to passive infrastructure specialist American Tower for €7.7 billion.
Vodafone will transfer its 50% stake in UK towers business Cornerstone to Vantage Towers, having brokered a deal with joint venture partner Telefonica to operate the unit as a commercial entity.
A pair of towers deals in Asia will together bring in well over US$1 billion, it seems.
Vodafone’s newly spun-out towers business is looking for acquisitions to drive growth, focusing on macro towers sites and adjacent opportunities, and has earmarked a sizeable sum for the purpose.
Vodafone CEO Nick Read on Monday indicated that his company will continue to fight against what it perceives to be unfair 5G licensing conditions in Portugal: there is more work to come for the lawyers.
The rumoured €10 billion, 30,000 site, European tower megadeal between Cellnex and CK Hutchison has been completed.
Never one to do things by halves, Australian incumbent Telstra is doing it by thirds instead, via a major restructuring that will divide the company into three separate legal entities.
Coronavirus means the US-Canadian border remains closed, unless of course you’re in a position to spend billions on a couple of hundred phone towers there.
Three UK parent CK Hutchison is keen to monetise its mobile infrastructure, and to that end it has hammered out an agreement with Spain-based towerco Cellnex.
Selling or spinning off towers is de rigueur among European telcos these days, and it looks like Three UK doesn’t want to be left out.
Ambitious Spanish tower specialist Cellnex is going to drop at least €375 million to the towering operations of operator NOS.
A new joint venture between Phoenix Tower International and Bouygues Telecom has been announced to develop approximately 4,000 new towers across France to its 5G prospects.
After announcing their intention to merge their tower businesses last July, TIM and Vodafone have had to wait nine months for the EU to give it a look.
French telecoms conglomerate Iliad is selling most of its tower assets in France and Italy to Cellnex for €2 billion.
Vodafone UK and Telefonica UK (O2) will be entering into a new infrastructure-sharing relationship ahead of the much-anticipated 5G rollout.
Debt-riddled French telco conglomerate Altice has raised some much-needed cash by selling stakes in two of its tower holdings to private equity.
Telkom Kenya has announced it has reached a definitive agreement to sell up to 723 towers to American Tower, expanding the latter’s footprint to a fifth country in Africa.
Malaysian telco Axiata, via its subsidiary Edotco, is buying the tower business of the largest Pakistani operator Jazz.
Telecoms infrastructure company Cellnex has bought 2,239 towers in Switzerland from Sunrise, as part of an investment consortium.
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