Crown Castle acquires towers

Crown Castle Australia has acquired towers from Aussie Broadband and iiNet furthering its reach into regional South Australia and Victoria.

Since coming to Australia in 2000, the company’s portfolio has grown to over 1700 towers and rooftop sites and is now one of Australia’s largest independent tower operators.

Crown Castle managing director Roger Hawke said, “These acquisitions allow us to further support our customers as they look to expand their networks throughout those markets.”

The company has based its business on the principle of co-locating multiple organisations on its towers, reducing the cost of deployment and improving speed to market for radio communications users.

Hawke said, “Crown Castle is currently building new towers for government, emergency services organisations, a mining company as well as co-locating new equipment from various radio communications operators on our national network of sites.

“We are constantly growing the number of premium wireless sites and have, for example, worked with three different government agencies in Western Australia to assist in providing a shared, purpose-built, secure network.”

The company is involved in the WA Police (WAPOL) Regional Radio Project and has had a mixture of co-location on existing Crown Castle sites as well as new tower builds where no suitable sites currently exist.

Hawke commented, “The WAPOL project will upgrade and expand the existing Police Regional Radio Network in rural and remote Western Australia, providing mobile digital radio coverage to over 18,000 square kilometres state-wide and Crown Castle is delighted to be a part of this critical community service project.”

He said that users retain ownership of their equipment and antennas and control their own shelter and power needs. “Within the emergency services agencies, this is an important factor where certainty and reliability is paramount.”