AT&T Terminated 630 Cell Sites in 2019
AT&T (via BlackDot), is contacting tower owners and landowners and trying to convince them to renegotiate their leases. If you …
Category: Lease Rates and Lease Valuation
T-Mobile Sprint Merger Backup Plan?
One of our municipal clients has a water tower with T-Mobile and Sprint on it. T-Mobile has proposed to add …
Seem Like Offers to Buy or Extend Your Cell Tower Lease Are Getting Better?
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).
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 …
Lendlease’s New Renegotiation Efforts on Sprint Rooftop Sites
If you have followed our musings over the years, you know that we don’t like the lease renegotiation industry. In …
Weird Revenue Sharing Clause
One of our clients received a proposal from a tower company that included a revenue share clause. Generally, revenue shares …
T-Mobile Sued for Alleged Unauthorized Attachment to High Tension Electric Tower
A few times a year, we are contacted by someone that believes that a wireless company attached equipment to an …
Sprint Enters the Lease Renegotiation Game Again
A landowner client of ours received this email from LCC, a company allegedly acting on behalf of Sprint where they …
Rooftop Small Cell in Syracuse, NY (Ken’s Hometown)
Despite living here for over a year now, I just came across my first small cell in the City of …
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 …