The UK's competition watchdog has warned that a deal by Cellnex to purchase telecoms towers from rival CK Hutchison could "mean higher prices" for mobile customers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) added that the deal, which was agreed in January, could worsen terms for mobile operators and their users. Cellnex, a Spanish independent supplier of telecoms infrastructure, agreed to buy the European infrastructure assets of conglomerate CK Hutchison, which also owns mobile brand Three. The deal included CK Hutchison's UK towers and masts and was part of around £8.6bn of deals by Cellnex at the time. Cellnex owns the structures which mobile operators and other wireless communications network providers attach equipment to in order to run their networks, as well as the sites these are built on.

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