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The changing face of mobile tower provision: an analysis of recent deals

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  • Pierre Vialle

    (IMT-BS - MMS - Département Management, Marketing et Stratégie - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - Université Paris-Saclay - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris])

  • Jason Whalley

    (Northumbria University [Newcastle])

  • Peter Curwen

    (Newcastle University Business School)

Abstract

Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of tower deals within the mobile telecommunications industry. These deals, which involve a change in ownership of the towers, range in size from the sale of a few hundred towers in Jamaica to the IPO of China Tower with its 1.9 million sites, reflect one factor in particular. Mobile operators, faced with the need to invest in their networks to widen their coverage and improve quality, no longer view towers as performing a core role in the provision of their services. Rather than owning their tower infrastructure, mobile operators are entering into long-term sale and leaseback arrangements with specialist tower companies and are using the capital raised from the deals to better effect elsewhere. [...]

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  • Pierre Vialle & Jason Whalley & Peter Curwen, 2021. "The changing face of mobile tower provision: an analysis of recent deals," Post-Print hal-03549544, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03549544
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