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Clear Channel Outdoor Americas & Vertical Bridge Announce National Wireless Billboard Partnership

Boca Raton-based Vertical Bridge, believed to be the largest U.S. private owner and manager of wireless telecommunication infrastructure, and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced the signing of an exclusive multi-year agreement for the management and marketing of wireless deployment on Clear Channel Outdoor America’s billboards and other out-of-home assets in 45 of the top 50 U.S. markets.

Clear Channel Outdoor Canada logoThis agreement, covering more geography and out-of- home inventory than any similar agreement in the U.S., was announced at The Wireless Association’s CTIA Super Mobility 2015 conference in Las Vegas.

Under the terms of the agreement, Vertical Bridge will have exclusive rights to antenna and small cell site deployment across CCOA’s multi-platform footprint. These small cell base stations will significantly improve concentrated bandwidth and enable capacity increases for mobile services, while enhancing the user experience.

With the addition of CCOA’s assets, Vertical Bridge will own or manage a portfolio of over 40,000 attractive billboard, tower, rooftop, utility attachments and other site locations that are geographically dispersed across urban, suburban, traffic corridor and rural areas. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“We are very pleased to broaden our relationship with iHeartMedia through this partnership with Clear Channel Outdoor Americas,” says Alex Gellman, CEO, Vertical Bridge. “Growth in mobile data traffic is driving network demand, and the top U.S. carriers are in the midst of a significant investment cycle to maintain the reliability and performance of their networks. We believe billboards will play an increasingly important role in the deployment of all networks, and CCOA has the best locations for carriers who are looking to enhance services for mobile consumers.”

“Clear Channel Outdoor is consistently at the forefront of innovation leveraging our assets to help our partners reach today’s mobile, digital and social media consumers,”
says Scott Wells, CEO, Clear Channel Outdoor Americas. “Today’s agreement enables wireless carriers to better serve millions of consumers across Clear Channel’s vast network around the country, and we are always pleased to find win-win opportunities to further monetize our valuable portfolio of assets.”

Posted by on 10 September 2015.

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