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European telcos cash in on tower assets

By Isla Binnie and Supantha Mukherjee

Mar 4 2021 12:59AM

As high-cost 5G investment looms.

European telcos cash in on tower assets

European telecoms firms are cashing in on the money-making power of masts, as tower companies line up to pay multi-billion dollar price tags for antennas buzzing with ever more data ahead of the advent of 5G. Faced with straitened revenue growth and stubbornly high debt built up during the last ...

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