American Tower Corporation (ATC) has acquired Eaton Towers Holdings, a pan-African tower company that owns and operates more than 5,500 mobile telecom towers in Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Burkina Faso and Niger, for approximately US$1.85bn
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