M&A Deal Summary

TowerCo Acquires Iowa Wireless - 119 Towers

On October 18, 2012, TowerCo acquired communications company Iowa Wireless - 119 Towers from Iowa Wireless Services for 46M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is TowerCo’s 2nd transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is TowerCo’s 2nd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is TowerCo’s 2nd transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-10-18
Target Iowa Wireless - 119 Towers
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) TowerCo
Sellers(s) Iowa Wireless Services
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 46M USD

Target

Iowa Wireless - 119 Towers

United States
Iowa Wireless - 119 Towers comprises 119 wireless cell phone towers.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

TowerCo

Cary, North Carolina, United States

Category Company
Founded 2004
Sector Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION

TowerCo develops and owns wireless communications towers and leases the towers' capacity to communications service providers. In addition to leasing towers, the company also markets and manages third-party towers for regional carriers. TowerCo was founded in 2004 and is based in Cary, North Carolina.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Communications M&A 2 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-26 TowerCo - 3 252 Towers

United States

TowerCo - 3,252 Tower sites in 47 states across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Sell $1.5B

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Iowa Wireless Services

Urbandale, Iowa, United States

Category Company
Founded 1997
Sector Communications
DESCRIPTION

Iowa Wireless Services, LLC (dba iWireless) is a privately owned by group of 127 Independent Telephone Companies that serve 500,000 rural Iowans. Core network transport, broadcast video and Internet service via netINS are among the products offered by Iowa Network Services to telephone companies across the state of Iowa and to enterprise customers nationwide.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Communications M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1