Airtel Africa seals $1.2b tower lease deals amid Comesa probe

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A front view of an Airtel shop. The renewed tower leases will help Airtel Africa reduce outages and increase data capacity for 5G. 

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Airtel Africa Plc has concluded a deal to extend its telecommunication tower lease agreements with the American Tower Corporation (ATC) across its subsidiaries in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and Niger by 12 years.

This is despite ongoing investigation by the Comesa competition watchdog over alleged anticompetitive behaviour, but officials say the new deals are independent of what is under probe.