Crown Castle finished the first quarter of 2021 with 40,000 towers and approximately 80,000 small cells on-air or committed in backlog as well as 80,000 route miles of fiber concentrated in the top U.S. markets, the company’s CEO Jay Brown said during a conference...
American Tower and Dish Network Corporation have signed a master lease agreement through which the latter company may lease space on up to 20,000 American Tower communications sites.
Through the deal, Dish will secure access to American Tower’s U.S. portfolio of communications sites as it...
China Tower’s business last year was positively impacted by the accelerated deployment of 5G sites across China, the company said in its earnings release.
During 2020, the company’s net profit grew 23.1% year-on-year to CNY6.4 billion ($980.2 million) while operating revenue increased 6.1% to CNY81.1...
Vodafone has 82,000 macro sites across 10 European countries
Vodafone is seeking to raise 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in an initial public offering of its European mobile-phone towers unit in Frankfurt, making it, according to Bloomberg, one of the biggest stock market listings seen in...
Dish has signed seven new tower deals to boost its nationwide 5G network infrastructure, the operator said in a release.
Dish, which is in the process of constructing a cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G wireless network, secured new tower agreements with Harmoni Towers, Mobilite, Parallel Infrastructure,...
Spanish telecom operator Telefónica’s subsidiary Telxius Telecom has signed an agreement with American Tower Corporation (ATC) for the sale of its telecommunications towers businesses in Europe and Latin America.
Telxius has telecommunications towers in Spain, Germany, Brazil, Peru, Chile and Argentina.
Telefonica, which holds a 50.1%...
American Tower has agreed to acquire InSite Wireless Group, which owns, operates and manages approximately 3,000 communications sites, primarily in the U.S. and Canada.
The portfolio includes more than 1,400 owned towers in the U.S., over 200 in Canada and approximately 70 distributed antenna system...
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The Cellnex deal hinges on the EC’s decision regarding the acquisition of Polish operator Play by Iliad
Cellnex is further expanding its European footprint with an agreement with Iliad to acquire a 60% stake in a new company, which will operate 7,000 sites owned by...
China Tower’s business in the first three quarters of 2020 was positively impacted by the rapid deployment of 5G sites across China, the company said in its earnings release.
The company said that a total of 345,000 5G sites had been constructed in China as...
Crown Castle expects to deploy approximately 10,000 small cell nodes in 2020, the company's CEO Jay Brown said during a conference call with investors.
“2019 was a terrific year, as we've successfully deployed approximately 10,000 small cell nodes, making it the highest year of production...
Telecom operator Zain Saudi Arabia ended 2019 with a total of 2,600 5G towers across the country, the telco said in a release.
Zain Saudi Arabia Vice-Chairman Bader Al Kharafi said that these 5G towers enabled the operator to offer commercial 5G services in 26...
Spanish wireless infrastructure operator Cellnex has reached an agreement with Orange Spain to acquire a portfolio of 1,500 telecommunications sites in the country, the former said in a release.
Cellnex said that the acquisition of the towers and antennas, which are located in urban, suburban and...
American Tower expects the deployment of 5G in the U.S. will have different approaches considering specific topographic and population characteristics, the company’s President and CEO James Taiclet said during a conference call with investors.
“In our view, 5G will likely have a number of layers...
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The U.K.’s Vodafone Group has confirmed that it will create a separate business to house its tower infrastructure in Europe.
Vodafone said the new entity, dubbed TowerCo, woill be the largest tower company in Europe. Its assets include 61,700 towers across ten markets, with 75%...
American Tower Corporation’s CEO talks about the role of mid-band spectrum deployments in supporting 5G
American Tower expects 4G technology to be the main driver of tower demands in the coming years despite increasing momentum for 5G builds, the company's Chairman and CEO James Taiclet...
Altice France and KKR will form a new entity dubbed SFR TowerCo
The European Commission has approved a deal in which U.S. investment company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts will acquire a stake in European cable group Altice’s telecom towers business in France.
In June, Altice Europe said...
Vodafone Group currently operates 110,000 towers across its European footprint
U.K.-based telecom group Vodafone is considering selling towers in order to help reduce the company’s debt, which currently totals 31 billion euros ($36.2 billion), its incoming CEO Nick Read said.
At a Goldman Sachs investor conference,...
Altice said it expects to raise $2.9 billion through the sales of stakes in its businesses in these two countries
Dutch-based telecoms and cable group Altice plans to raise 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion) through the sale of stakes in its telecoms towers businesses in...
In a panel discussion at the recent ConnectX event, executives from private tower companies weighed the potential impacts of the proposed merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint on network infrastructure. With T-Mobile US having outlined plans to decommission as many as 35,000 towers --...
China Tower is seeking a valuation of up to $ 40 billion through the IPO
Chinese state-owned telecommunications tower company China Tower filed an application for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE), seeking a valuation of up to $40...
The new entity will own 163,000 telecom towers across India and will become the world's second-largest tower company
India's Indus Towers and Bharti Infratel agreed to merge their operations in a deal that will create the world's second-largest mobile towers company
The new company will have...
Beyond military applications
Commercial unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones, are no longer bound to military applications. The potential applications of drones is significantly increasing as the components that makeup the technology become more lightweight and affordable. Below explores a handful of drone use...
