BROWSING: Towers

When birds make themselves at home in cell towers, it poses a serious threat to themselves and technicians South African telecommunications operator MTN announced plans to install 100 boxes on cell towers in Johannesburg to house barn owls, which have made themselves at home in...

China Tower net profit up 16.1% year-on-year China Tower business in the first half of the year was positively impacted by the accelerated deployment of 5G sites across the Asian nation, the company said in its earnings release. During H1 2021, the company’s net profit grew...

Dish Network expects to launch 5G wireless services in Las Vegas in a beta phase during the fourth quarter of the year, the company’s Chairman Charlie Ergen said during a conference call with investors.   The executive said that the 5G network in Las Vegas...

Lumen will sell CenturyLink-branded assets to Apollo across 20 states and retain those in 16 states Lumen Technologies has agreed to sell a portion of its incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) operations to Apollo Global Management for $7.5 billion. Lumen will retain the CenturyLink-branded assets in 16...

China Broadcast Network (CBN), China's newest mobile carrier, has launched a tender for the radio access portion of its national 5G network, Chinese press reported. The tender, which seeks the provision of a total of 480,400 5G macro base stations in the 700MHz band, is...

China telecommunications infrastructure firm China Tower has deployed over 100 5G base stations in 17 competition venues for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as well as along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway and the Beijing-Chongli expressway, Chinese press reported. According to the report, China Tower...

American Tower Corporation and global insurer and investment firm Allianz, announced that Allianz Capital Partners and the Allianz European Infrastructure Fund, will acquire a 10% stake in ATC Europe. The transaction is valued at over 530 million euros ($633 million), reinforcing a more than €8.8...

France had a total of 25,105 5G authorized sites as of June 1, of which 14,284 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. ANFR said that the number of authorized 5G sites...

American Tower Corporation (ATC) has closed the Latin American tranche of its Telxius Towers acquisition, comprised of over 7,000 communications sites in Brazil, Peru, Chile and Argentina, the company said in a release. ATC said that the total value of the transaction amounted to approximately...

American Tower Corporation announced that it has closed the first tranche of the acquisition of Telxius Towers, comprised of nearly 20,000 communications sites in Germany and Spain, for total consideration of approximately 6.2 billion euros ($7.6 billion). In a release, ATC said that the closing...

China ended the first quarter of the year with a total of 819,000 5G base stations, up from 771,000 5G sites at the end of 2020, according to a report published by Chinese paper Global Times. For the full-year 2021, Chinese operators aim to install...

Helios will lease nearly 3,000 cell sites from Omantel for 15 years With its agreement to lease roughly 3,000 cell sites for $575 million from Omantel, Helios Towers is officially expanding to the Middle East. The deal, which the tower company said aligns with its...

German operator Telefónica Deutschland/O2, which is controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, is bundling frequencies using carrier aggregation (CA) technology to raise speeds for customers on its 5G networks. "We are continuously working on the further development of 5G in order to be able to offer...

France had a total of 24,219 5G authorized sites as of May 1, of which 13,332 were declared technically operational by the local mobile operators, according to the latest information provided by France’s spectrum agency ANFR. The agency said that almost all of the 5G...

Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom expects to end 2021 with over 10,000 5G stations across Taiwan, the company’s president, Harrison Kuo, said during a conference call with investors. Kuo said that the operator is currently operating a total of 6,300 5G sites across Taiwan. “In the first...

American Tower Corporation (ATC) and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, announced that the latter will acquire a 30% stake in ATC Europe. ATC said that the transaction is valued at over 1.6 billion euros ($1.92 billion), implying an...

American Tower Corporation (ATC) has been investing in more efficient and scalable power solutions at many of the company’s sites to be ready for the requirements of U.S. carriers extending their 5G networks nationwide, the company’s President and CEO, Tom Bartlett, said during a...

Taiwan Mobile announced that its 5G coverage has reached 50% of the country's population. In a release, Taiwan Mobile also said it had already built over 6,000 5G 3.5GHz cell towers by the end of last year, offering 80% 5G coverage in the six special...

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...

Chinese operator China Unicom revealed its 5G user numbers for the first time since the telco launched the technology in October 2019, closing 2020 with 70.8 million package subscribers. In its earnings statement, China Unicom noted that 5G customers accounted for 23.2% of its total...

China Telecom expects to increase investments in 5G infrastructure this year with the aim of almost doubling the number of base stations in the country, the company said in its annual report. The Chinese carrier said it has earmarked a total of CNY39.7 billion ($6.1...

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...