
Read this article to learn:
- The impact of the forthcoming sale of 10,000 Telecom Italia towers for a wave of tower transactions in Italy and across Europe
- Progress of LTE deployment in Italy
- Coverage overlap and tower sharing to date in Italy
- The continued performance of the Italian mobile sector against the downturn
- Why this tower sale is likely to attract than a previous attempt to sell 18,000 Italian towers in 2007
A forthcoming sale of Telecom Italia towers will be the most significant such transaction in Europe in 2014. The acquirer will become the largest independent towerco in Italy. Italian operator WIND, a subsidiary of the Russian Vimpelcom, is also considering a tower sale. If both of these initiatives come to fruition, the coming 12 months…