Welcome to the TowerXchange who’s who of global towercos. In this new series of four reference articles, we will profile the 139 tower companies known to TowerXchange with a tower count in excess of 300. We’ll introduce each tower company and seek to differentiate them in terms of footprint, business model and ownership profile. Part one of this series covers the world’s 12 largest towercos, who between them own 55% of the world’s 4.55mn investible towers and rooftops. Note that the data in this article was compiled in March 2019.
Key milestones in the last decade in the international telecom tower industry
American Tower
Disciplined globalisation
Tower count: 170,996
One of the ‘founder’ U.S.