Leading the way

How do we achieve our ambition? Deploying and developing state-of-the-art mobile infrastructure at scale and pace will accelerate Europe’s transition to 5G, resulting in the comprehensive coverage and smart cities that will revolutionise everyday lives.

Our ambition is one for truly sustainable connectivity throughout this journey: one that brings social, environmental and business benefits for all – both within Europe and in the role Europe plays in a wider, global context.

Focusing on three key areas

It’s essential that we take a truly 360-degree approach to the evolution of our business – and Europe – in the coming years. To maximise the positive impact of better connectivity, we have built our ambition-led strategy around three key pillars.

People
People
Planet
Planet
Performance

People

People

We firmly believe that diversity is a real driver of growth. As an agile-minded new company, and one built on the foundations of a world-leading telecommunications company, we combine an ingrained level of expertise and experience with an ambition to develop impactful, sustainable new solutions. These qualities enable us to overcome the challenges of our changing world. As such, we’re building a diverse team of brilliant thinkers, managers and engineers – creating an optimal talent mix for positively transforming the future.

It’s also crucial that our company fosters the type of culture that truly empowers our people: we favour entrepreneurial, collaborative and sustainability-conscious thinking; we are open to change and adopt a borderless mindset; we know that, as our business grows and develops, so too will our people’s careers and levels of personal fulfilment.

Planet

Society

It is no overstatement to say that Europe is facing unprecedented challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic – and the ensuing social/economic fallout – has made everyone more aware of just how important it is to stay connected.

Whether it’s through keeping family members in touch with one another, ensuring that businesses can continue to operate, or enabling crucial state services to function: we’re contributing to Europe’s resilience by forging strong value chains across the region. We’re doing so in a way that aids the region’s immediate recovery, development of a ‘new normal’ and long-term ability to thrive.

Planet
Planet
The environment

As we work to build a better digital future for the people of Europe, it’s also essential that we take steps to minimise our impact on the planet itself. Better connectivity brings with it the opportunity to advance new, greener ways of living and working.

How can we ensure that energy grids and other utilities run as efficiently as possible? How do we lessen congestion and overcrowding by making working from home truly viable? These are just some of the countless sustainability questions to which our infrastructure and technologies hold a key part of the answer. And while it’s true that increased connectivity and data usage requires more energy, the consumption per unit services delivered improves. Moreover, this will be offset by the emissions-reducing impact of IoT technologies and the services they facilitate.

Renewable
100 %
of our electricity procured from renewable sources
Ghg emissions
100 %
of redundant network equipment reused, resold or recycled by 2025
Exploring greener solutions for powering our towers
Wind turbine
Wind turbines

Micro wind turbines on masts to produce renewable energy. We are evaluating the rollout on 50 sites in Germany.

Solar panels
Solar panels

Solar panels represent a major opportunity for greener power in the future. Hybrid solar/generator solutions currently power c.50 sites in rural areas where commercial power is not readily available. As technologies develop it is conceivable that solar panels will offer a viable power source for masts across our portfolio.

Performance

We judge our performance against ambitious growth opportunities - both organic and inorganic. We also recognise that our performance encompasses the wider impact we have beyond our bottom line.

Our business is positioned to evolve in a way that inspires continuous improvements across the markets in which we operate.

We do this first by locating, acquiring and building industry-leading infrastructure. This provides the foundations that our customers and partners require to bring more expansive coverage and heightened capacity to more people than ever before. From there, our 5G capabilities and other cutting-edge technologies will help deliver the game-changing growth of IoT, unlocking the potential of truly smart cities across Europe.

Performance

Realising

our potential to expand our customers’ presence and deliver cost synergies

Expanding

and diversifying our services to deliver next-generation connectivity at scale

Evolving

towards comprehensive digital infrastructure and reliably powered smart cities

Performance
From the Internet of Things to fully-fledged smart cities

Lightning-fast 5G is set to make connected IoT devices commonplace in everyday life in the near future. It will revolutionise the way we live, work and interact – in turn making our lives easier, healthier, smarter and more fulfilling.

As our digital infrastructure advances in terms of capabilities and coverage, entire cities will feel the benefits of comprehensive connectivity. These benefits will be crucial to the region’s ability to thrive in the coming years and decades: from remotely monitored, ultra-efficient utilities that optimise energy consumption, to autonomous transport networks that result in less congestion, to industrial and agricultural operations that ensure safer, greener processes.

Network sharing is crucial to our vision of the future

Delivering the most impactful 5G network in Europe requires comprehensive infrastructure. To make this possible, we – and the majority of the telecoms industry – advocate a network sharing model. This allows operators to enter into partnerships and rental agreements jointly with other operators across Europe.

The benefits to this model are numerous, allowing us to reach remote communities that were previously not economically viable, while also ensuring that more densely populated areas are fully serviced at all times. Network sharing is also inherently more environmentally-friendly and efficient, in that it drives industrial synergies and negates the need for mass construction of new towers across the landscape.

Energy Management

At Vantage Towers, we strongly believe that the sustainable operation of our macro tower sites is the best way to achieve success on a long term. As such, we strive to optimise our efficiency by constantly improving our energy performance and reducing our power usage. Discover the three pillars through which we maintain the best energy management practices for our clients and society and learn about the related projects we’re most proud of.

 

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Energy Management

Rural Connectivity

As a leading tower company in Europe, we are already driving the digital transformation in Germany with our fast-paced roll-out programme. However, there are still many areas where mobile data services are currently not possible. The federal funding program for mobile communications is an important initiative to close this gap and gradually take rural regions forward into the digital world.

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Rural Connectivity