# American Tower

> American Tower owns, operates and develops shared communications infrastructure, renting tower space to wireless carriers and providing colocation and interconnection through CoreSite. The Boston-based public REIT reported $10.645 billion in 2025 revenue and approximately 150,000 communications sites at year-end.

- **Founded:** 1995
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Founders:** Steven B. Dodge (Founder; former Chairman and CEO)
- **Products:** Tower and rooftop leasing, Site development and engineering, Distributed antenna systems, CoreSite colocation and interconnection
- **Notable:** Grew from a 1995 American Radio Systems subsidiary into a standalone public company in 1998., Commenced REIT operations on January 1, 2012., Completed the CoreSite acquisition in December 2021; reported total consideration was approximately $10.4 billion including assumed and repaid debt.

## Products & services

- **Tower and rooftop leasing** — Space for carrier antennas and associated equipment on shared communications sites; customers generally retain ownership and operation of network equipment.
- **Site development and engineering** — Site applications, zoning, permitting and structural analysis supporting network additions and upgrades.
- **Distributed antenna systems** — Managed indoor and selected outdoor networks serving venues and locations where conventional towers are impractical.
- **CoreSite colocation and interconnection** — U.S. data centers supplying space, power, cooling and network and cloud interconnection. CoreSite operates the Open Cloud Exchange software-defined networking platform.

## Achievements

- Grew from a 1995 American Radio Systems subsidiary into a standalone public company in 1998.
- Commenced REIT operations on January 1, 2012.
- Completed the CoreSite acquisition in December 2021; reported total consideration was approximately $10.4 billion including assumed and repaid debt.
- Reported approximately 150,000 communications sites, 30 data centers and operations in more than 20 countries at year-end 2025.
- Reported $10.645 billion in 2025 revenue, up 5.1%.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced election of Kristen M. Ludgate to the board and declared a quarterly distribution on September 18.
- **2026-07** — Second-quarter revenue increased 4.7% to $2.749 billion; management reported record CoreSite leasing activity and raised its full-year outlook for the second time in 2026.
- **2026-06** — Released its 2025 Sustainability Executive Report on June 30.
- **2026-02** — Reported full-year 2025 revenue of $10.645 billion.

## Links

- Website: https://www.americantower.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-tower/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/americantowerus
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanTower/

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Last updated: 2026-10-22