American Tower Corporation

Global REIT owning cell towers and U.S. data centers

What American Tower does

American Tower owns, operates and builds communications sites such as cell towers, which several wireless carriers can share. It has more than 148,000 of these sites worldwide and also owns a network of connected data centers in the U.S.

How American Tower makes money

It earns rent by leasing space on its shared communications sites to multiple tenants such as wireless carriers. It also earns income from its U.S. data center facilities.

Products & services

• Multitenant communications sites (cell towers)
• Communications site leasing
• U.S. data center facilities
• Interconnection services
• Communications site development