Providing Financing to Cellnex Telecom and the edotco Group (Major Overseas Telecommunication Infrasharing Providers)

The volume of data communications is continuing to increase daily owing mainly to the spread of the smartphone and expansion of video streaming services. The establishment of communications networks to support this massive data traffic is growing in importance globally. Given this trend, one method to efficiently establish communications networks is the shared use of base stations by multiple mobile phone service carriers. This system of communications infrastructure-sharing (infrasharing) is expanding worldwide.

In Japan, the sharing of outdoor infrastructure has not yet caught on. But, anticipating its spread ahead of the commercial launch of 5G mobile communications services in Japan, DBJ aims to acquire knowledge on communications infrasharing by providing financing to some of its major providers (tower companies) overseas and then disseminate what it learns to companies in Japan.

DBJ is providing financing to Cellnex Telecom, S.A (headquarters:Barcelona, Spain), the largest regional independent communications tower company in Europe, and to edotco Group Sdn Bhd (headquarters: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), the largest regional independent communications tower company in Southeast Asia. In addition, DBJ is creating opportunities for other Japanese financial institutions to provide financing to overseas communications tower companies. DBJ is working to promote the spread of communications infrasharing in Japan through the dissemination of knowledge about it.