Approached by Black Dot Wireless to renegotiate your cell site lease?

If you are looking for Black Dot Wireless' webpage, please go to www.blackdotwireless.com. If you have been contacted by Black Dot Wireless, LLC about renegotiating (and I use the term negotiating lightly) your Cingular/AT&T Wireless cell site lease, or regarding renegotiating your Sprint/Nextel cell site lease and are looking for guidance, then you have come to the right place. There are a few things you should know prior to entering negotiations.

First, while Black Dot may allow you to negotiate, you are really not negotiating. They have specific constraints built into an online database that they use to evaluate what the minimum that they can reduce your rent by and still get their commission. And make no mistake, these Black Dot agents work on a commission basis. Job placement advertisements run by Black Dot have suggested that their salesmen can make over $200,000 annually convincing landowners to agree to reduce their cell site lease. The Black Dot Wireless LLC agents are provided scripts with standard responses to any of your questions. And if the script does not contain an answer, they either misdirect the question or fail to answer.

So while you think you are negotiating, its all part of a formula. To make matters worse, they clearly use the confusion generated by these mergers to "negotiate" reductions in rent. It is correct that a relatively small percentage of AT&T and Cingular cell tower locations will be terminated, as well as a slightly smaller amount of Nextel and Sprint cell tower locations. But it is clear through our consultations, that in many cases, the landowner's cell tower lease is perfectly secure.

If we may be blunt- unless you understand what Black Dot is really attempting to accomplish- (and its rarely ever simply reducing rent), you are a severe disadvantage in these negotiations. We have assisted individual landowners, large corporations, municipalities and even tower companies. And only a handful of our clients ever really knew what was actually occuring. But don't take our word for it- see what our clients have said.

Don't be sold by Black Dot's high pressure techniques. Understand what you are actually negotiating. If you need help figuring out whether you are at risk, please contact us for assistance. For more information, please go either our

AT&T and Cingular Cell Tower Lease Renegotiation Page

or our

Nextel and Sprint Cell Tower Lease Renegotiation Page

or our

Alltel Lease Renegotiation Page

We have helped over 100 clients with these Black Dot "negotiations". If we can be of similar assistance to you- please CONTACT US.

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