INVESTIGATION – A new entrant sets fire to the telecoms pylons sector, where the operators' antennas are connected. He threatens to expel them, at the cost of a risk of cuts in rural areas.
When helicopters fly over Vaison-la-Romaine, in Vaucluse, it is usually to contemplate the richness of its ancient heritage, its sites from the Gallo-Roman era, its medieval city or even its perpendicular cathedral. from the cliff. Last week, it was an aerial ballet of another kind that onlookers witnessed. Chartered by the Spanish company Cellnex, aircraft carrying pieces of a mobile telephone pylon in their clutches split the sky of the locality.
The Spanish company is a “towerco”: in the telecoms sector, this neologism designates the infrastructure companies which deploy and operate the pylons and masts on which the mobile antennas of Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues are attached. for their coverage (4G and 5G). For a long time, the four major players internalized this profession themselves. But at the turn of the 2020s, they spun off and then sold (with the exception of Orange, which…
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