TMT : TMT BI MONTHLY Dynamics behind European tower companies
With the recent sale of part of its towers in France and thre e quarters of its towers in Portugal, Altice Europe has pulled off one of the major deals in the European telecom sector . Very present in the United States, tower companies (towercos) have developed in the rest of the world . European telecom operators opted, mainly to strengthen their balance sheets, to divest part of their towers to specialist companies , sometimes even to infrastructure investment funds. As for the credit rating agencies, they have tended to respond rather positively to the total or partial divestment of tower installed bases by telecom operator .