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Since 2004, Steel in the Air has served over 3,000 clients, reviewed over 10,000 cellular leases and tracked over 2,000 lease buyout offers. We represent private landowners, corporate property owners and public entities in lease negotiations against wireless carriers and tower companies. We also consult on cell site and cell tower valuation and brokerage. Our cell tower and cell site database has grown to encompass over 285,000 cell site locations nationwide.

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Category: Tenant Collocation and Subleasing

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Why Did My Crown Castle Lease Revenue Share Payments Go Up or Down?

A number of our clients have ground leases with Crown Castle that contain revenue sharing clauses. They contacted us recently …

October 22, 2018 Ken Schmidt

AT&T Wants to Buy Your Tower! (Well, Not Really)

A client of ours owns more than a few cell towers that have AT&T as a collocation tenant.  They recently …

September 28, 2018 Ken Schmidt

Weird Revenue Sharing Clause

One of our clients received a proposal from a tower company that included a revenue share clause. Generally, revenue shares …

April 11, 2018 Ken Schmidt

What’s Happened So Far in Wireless in 2017?

As we look back over the first half of 2017, there has been much non-activity on the merger front. Many …

September 20, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Md7 Sending AT&T Renegotiation Letters- without Disclosing Letter is from Md7

We had heard previously that AT&T wasn't willing to allow lease optimization firms to send out letters on its letterhead …

August 15, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Et Tu, Brute? Verizon Appears to Have Hired Accenture to Renegotiate Cell Tower Leases Using Same Tired Threats of Relocation

A municipal client, who has multiple public safety towers upon which Verizon is colocated, received a call and letter from …

July 28, 2017 Ken Schmidt
Sprint Proposed Canister Antennas

Sprint’s Really Odd Antenna Configuration Proposal

On one of our municipal client's towers, Sprint submitted a request to replace three existing antennas with new antennas that add 2.5GHz …

May 5, 2017 Ken Schmidt

FL State Representative pushes Small Cell Legislation while his City Issues RFI on Leasing City Property for Macrocells

In the Florida House of Representatives, a bill is being pushed through to significantly limit the control that a local …

April 27, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Towers and Tenant Collocation Rent Trends: 2016-Beyond

In their article “Tower Rents May See Pressure from Carriers”, AGL Magazine cites three sources to justify their overreaching conclusion …

January 20, 2016 Ken Schmidt

Sprint’s Network Overhaul- Radical Impact on AMT, CCI, and SBAC?

The website Re/code posted an unconfirmed article on Friday re: Sprint’s Next Generation Network which stated “sources familiar with the …

January 18, 2016 Ken Schmidt

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