Tower Infrastructure News
All the latest tower infrastructure insight, news and analysis involving BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone.
M&A
Deutsche Telekom closes out €10bn towers sale
Deutsche Telekom completes transfer of majority ownership in German and Austrian tower business.
Financial & Performance
A year on, Vantage reassures ops overhaul ‘is working’
TowerCo remains on “journey” when it comes to realigning its production function, and smoothing out logistics challenges arising from the global supply chain crunch.
Network & Infrastructure
Pantheon Infrastructure buys into GD Towers growth plan
UK infra fund team provides backing to DigitalBridge as it preps joint takeover of Austrian and German tower business.
Venturing & Investments
DIF Capital Partners adds RFNOW to growing fibre portfolio
DIF extends focus on Canadian fibre market with purchase of RFNOW.
Financial & Performance
Indus Towers posts loss as pressure piles on ailing client Vi
TowerCo forced to make large provision against ‘doubtful debts’.
Network & Infrastructure
High hopes: Sitetracker on re-imagining TowerCo InfraOps
Asset management software player gaining clients as infra operators seek to escape outdated practices and tech. Reference win with Vantage Towers seeing vendor support IT transformation accompanying TowerCo’s independent growth ambitions.
M&A
American Tower eyes up potential Cellnex takeover
TowerCo could launch bid backed by Canadian VC fund Brookfield for acquisition of Spanish infra group.
Network & Infrastructure
Extreme weather to test network resilience in 2023
Forecast: more severe storms and heat with a chance of network outages.
Network & Infrastructure
BT brings in Aussie exec for fresh look at wireless assets
New team being built within BT to evaluate revenue and efficiency opportunities around unilateral towers and other network elements.
Strategy & Change
T-Mobile Poland rules out tower spinoff, plots earlier 3G sunset
TMPL has no plans to spin out towers or build a fibre network.
Network & Infrastructure
Czech Republic is next on DT’s wireless infra separation list
NatCo transfers passive wireless infrastructure to new entity T-Mobile Infra CZ.