Testimonials
Have someone like you who can accurately appraise the situation and clients who are not hungry or appear not
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within the week. Thanks for your help and you can use this email as a reference.
Howard from Connecticut- Crown Castle Lease Renegotiation
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Cell Tower Location Data
In order to serve its clients well, Steel in the Air maintains a comprehensive cell tower location database. We have compiled this database over 7 years from numerous publicly available databases including the FCC Antenna Structure Registration data and from some privately available cell tower location databases.
To be candid, much of this data could be assembled by almost anyone with GIS expertise assuming they knew where to find the data. The key here is knowing what sources of data are important and how to pare down the information included in many databases to that which is usable.
Other providers of cell tower location data take pride in the quantity of data that they have assembled. They state that they have acquired 200,000 or 250,000 cell site locations. What a prospective purchaser or user needs to be aware of is that the data may include potential cell site locations like rooftops that are not currently used by cellular providers or towers that have no tenants. Steel in the Air spends a significant amount of time analyzing and sorting through its data to remove all rooftop sites, billboard sites, water tower sites, ect unless they are known to be actually in use by a cellular provider.
Our cell tower location data is exactly that - the locations of cell tower in the United States. Our clients are tower companies looking to perform competitive analysis on their prospective acquisitions or their new builds. They like the reliability of our cell tower location data. We don't promise that all cell towers will be listed in our data- but we use our best efforts to make sure that locations that are not actual in-use cell sites are not included in the data. That way, the client does not drive around looking for a 2 story bank building that someone thought would make a good cell site.
We also get contacted by fiber companies looking to determine how many towers are located near their fiber so that they can determine opportunities for backhaul services via fiber to the wireless carriers at the towers.
We also provide notations in our cell tower location data as to where the portfolio originally came from. For instance, we track which sites in the Crown Castle portfolio were originally Sprint Sites or Global Signal sites. This enables our clients to have better information about who might be collocated on the tower.
One thing that we can't provide is cell site location IDs. We have received many inquiries from prospective clients who want to offer a location based service using cell site IDs to determine the location of the user. The cellular carriers maintain this data and it is not publicly available. Unfortunately, if you are looking for cell site ID data- we cannot provide it.
If you are interested in seeing some of our data - please see some of our cell tower location data maps. Please feel free to Contact Us for more information.
Our data includes the following fields to the extent such data was available in the original data set:
- Tower Company or Owner
- Portfolio
- Latitude and Longitude (NAD83- Decimal Degree Format)
- Site Address
- FCC ASR Number
- FAA Study Number
- Data Constructed
- Structure Height
- Ground Elevation
- Height AMSL
- Compound Size
- Tower Type