BROWSING: Towers

Orange, Vodacom announce tower JV in Africa

Orange and Vodacom committed to jointly construct up to 2,000 new solar-powered base stations over six years, using 2G and 4G technologies Orange and Vodacom have signed a partnership to create a rural tower partnership in Africa, the former said in a release. Through this...

Vodafone completes sale of remaining stake in Indus Towers

Vodafone said that part of the proceeds enabled the telco to increase its ownership in Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea U.K-based Vodafone Group has finalized the sale of its remaining stake in Indian tower operator Indus Towers. In a regulatory filing, the company confirmed the...

Data-driven site selection: How GIS tools are transforming tower deployment (Reader Forum)

In an era defined by rapid digital transformation, robust and reliable wireless networks are indispensable to modern connectivity. Nearly every aspect of daily life relies on seamless internet access, so the importance of strategic wireless tower placement has grown exponentially. Expanding 5G networks, coupled...

Vodafone Group sells remaining stake in Indus Towers

In India, Vodafone Group operates via its partially owned telco Vodafone Idea Vodafone Group announced that it has launched a placing of its remaining 79.2 million shares in Indian tower company Indus Towers Limited representing 3.0% of Indus' outstanding share capital through an accelerated book...

CelcomDigi strengthens partnership with tower operators in Malaysia

CelcomDigi said its network integration and modernization initiative is now close to 70% complete Malaysian carrier CelcomDigi strengthened collaborations with its infrastructure partners with the aim of accelerating the modernization and digitalization of its network infrastructure. In a release, the telco said it renewed its strategic...

American Tower closes sale of Indian operations to Brookfield

American Tower Corporation had initially announced the transaction in January 2024 American Tower Corporation (ATC) announced that it has closed the previously announced sale of 100% of the equity interests in its operations in India to Data Infrastructure Trust (DIT), an infrastructure investment trust sponsored...

DigitalBridge launches offer to acquire JTower in take-private deal

JTower said that the tender offer will be open until October 10 U.S. investment firm DigitalBridge Group is offering a 152% premium for Japanese tower company JTower in a deal that values the Asian telecom infrastructure company at around JPY93 billion ($630 million), according to...

TIM to sell remaining stake in tower company Inwit

TIM holds an indirect stake of only 3% in Inwit through its 10% stake in holding company Daphne 3 Telecom Italia (TIM) signed an agreement with Impulse I, a consortium led by private equity group Ardian, to sell its remaining stake in mobile tower company...

China Mobile’s H1 revenues grow 3%

China Mobile plans to launch 5G-Advanced (5G-A) technology in over 300 cities across China this year China Mobile, the world’s largest operator in terms of subscribers, recorded operating revenues of CNY546.7 billion ($76.3 billion) in the first half of the year, up 3% year-on-year, the...

Sale of ATC India gets approval, ending company’s 17-year presence

Brookfield Asset Management will acquire 100% of ATC India for $2.5 billion The Competition Commission of India has cleared the takeover of American Tower Corp (ATC) Indian operations (known as ATC India) by Brookfield Asset Management for $2.5 billion. The acquisition, announced in January, will see the...

China Tower ends H1 with 2.07mn towers

China Tower added a total of 9,000 sites during the first half of 2024 China Tower ended the first half of the 2024 with a total of 2.07 million towers under management, after a new addition of 9,000 sites during the period. In a release, the...

Vodafone parts with further 10% stake in Vantage Towers

Vodafone has been minimizing its ownership of Vantage Towers for the past several years Vodafone Group has sold a further 10% stake in Vantage Towers for 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 billion), a decision the company said is “in line” with its operating targets. Proceeds from...

Vodafone sells 18% stake in Indus Towers

Following the placing, Vodafone holds 82.5 million shares in Indus Towers, equivalent to a 3.1% shareholding U.K.-based Vodafone Group announced that it has sold 484.7 million shares in Indian tower company Indus Towers, representing 18% of Indus’ share capital, through an accelerated book-build offering. In a...

Vodafone seeks to sell its entire stake in Indus Towers: Report

Vodafone currently owns 21.5% of Indus Towers via various group entities U.K.-based Vodafone Group is looking to sell its entire $2.3 billion stake in Indian tower company Indus Towers through stock market block deals, local newspaper Business Standard reported, citing sources with knowledge of the...

Airtel’s head urges Vodafone Idea to settle debts with Indus Towers

Vodafone Idea currently owes Indus Towers nearly $1.2 billion, according to local press reports Indian carrier Bharti Airte'sl Chairman Sunil Mittal urged rival operator Vodafone Idea to settle its debts with Indus Towers and said that the tower firm would not provide new services to...

KPN, Dutch pension fund to create tower firm in the Netherlands

TowerCo JV will own and operate 3,800 towers and rooftop sites in the Netherlands, said KPN Dutch operator KPN and pension fund ABP have signed an agreement to create a new tower company in the Netherlands. In a release KPN said that this strategic partnership is...

Rakuten Mobile, JTower expand collaboration on infra sharing

Rakuten Mobile started using JTower's solutions in January 2020 Japanese carrier Rakuten Mobile and compatriot telecom infrastructure company JTower announced that Rakuten Mobile has adopted JTower’s indoor infrastructure-sharing solutions for its network in more than 100 facilities and buildings across Japan. In a release, Rakuten Mobile,...

stc, PIF sign deal to create Saudi tower giant

The combined new entity will be owned 54% by PIF and 43.1% by stc Group The Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, and Saudi telecom group stc announced the signing of definitive agreements whereby PIF will acquire a 51% stake...

China Tower ends 2023 with 2.04 million telecom towers

China Tower said that total tower tenants rose to 3.65 million at the end of last year China Tower ended 2023 with a total of 2.04 million towers under management, down 0.4%, the company said in its earnings statement. The company said that total tower tenants...

China ends 2023 with 3.38 million 5G base stations

Government officials said 5G mobile phone users in China reached 805 million by the end of last year China ended 2023 with a total of 3.38 million 5G base stations at a national level, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said. By the end...

American Tower sells its tower business in India

American Tower has a portfolio of around 78,000 sites across India American Tower has signed a definitive agreement with Data Infrastructure Trust (DIT), an infrastructure investment trust associated with an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management, for DIT to acquire 100% of the equity interests in...

Ooredoo, Zain and TASC create largest tower firm in MENA

Ooredoo said the new tower entity is expected to achieve revenues close to $500 million annually Middle East operators Ooredoo and Zain have signed an agreement with TASC Towers Holding (TASC) with the aim of creating the largest tower company in the Middle East and Africa...

Virgin Media O2 sells part of its stake in tower firm Cornerstone

Virgin Media O2 will retain a 33.33% stake in Cornerstone upon completion of the transaction U.K. telco Virgin Media O2 has reached an agreement to sell a 16.67% minority stake in its mobile tower joint venture, Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited, to the U.K.-based infrastructure fund,...

American Tower’s Q3 revenues up 5.5% y-o-y

American Tower Corporation ended Q3 2023 with a portfolio of approximately 225,000 communications sites American Tower Corporation (ATC) reported overall revenues of $2.82 billion for the third quarter of 2023, climbing 5.5% year-on-year, the company said in its earnings statement. American Tower’s profits for the period...