Cell Tower and Wireless Telecommunications Blog
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.
Coupled with low cost of capital and their recent conversions to REITs, tower companies have every incentive to convert leases (long term operating expense) to easements (upfront capital expenditure).
We applaud Verizon for their interest in preventing their leases from being sold to third parties like lease buyout companies. It …
One of our client's called us yesterday to let us know that they had been beleaguered by a tower company …
HISTORY OF TRISTAR INVESTORS Back in 2008-2013, a company called Tristar Investors was attempting to acquire ground leases under American …
Crown Castle (CCI) is the largest of the Big Three U.S. tower companies, and currently owns 40K towers nationwide (followed …
On Feb 16, 2012, Tristar Investors sued American Tower Corporation alleging that American Tower had violated the Lanham Act, unfairly …
The article is written tongue in cheek- I was just feeling a little rambunctious today about the myriad of “strategies” that lease buyout companies, tower companies, lease optimization firms, and wireless carriers use to try to convince landowners to do something that is not in their best interest.
On a few occasions now, clients of ours with Crown Castle tower ground leases have received proposals to either purchase …
A gentleman contacted me this past week, a bit upset in that his church board had decided to sell a …
An ill advised RFP by the City of Allentown, PA will save the city money in hiring a consultant but will cost it far more in the end.