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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: Lease Terminations

Verizon’s Adds Insult to Injury to Cities After Successful Lobbying the FCC to Reduce City Small Cell Fees

So here it comes – after Verizon, AT&T, and others successfully spent tens of millions on lobbying the FCC and …

December 11, 2018 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

Research In Progress- Sprint vs. T-Mobile Site Overlap

We are currently working on a bespoke research project for a client where we examine the overlap between Sprint and …

July 17, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Sprint site redundancies and upgrades. Know what to watch out for.

Sprint is working with Nokia Networks (one of three network vendors) to upgrade its Spark program. This means adding two …

July 16, 2014 Ken Schmidt

And Immediately They Pounce…

As landowners and tower owners just start to hear of the AT&T – T-Mobile merger news, the lease buyout firms …

March 24, 2011 Ken Schmidt

Why is Clearwire Terminating My Lease- Part 2

A recent article about Clearwire in Wireless Week doesn’t directly address lease terminations by Clearwire, but does suggest some reasons that …

February 18, 2011 Ken Schmidt

Why is Clearwire Terminating My Lease?

Clearwire has been notifying landowners that they are terminating some leases. Here is what we believe is happening.

February 1, 2011 Ken Schmidt

Wireless Capital Partners tells Landowners of Sprint/Nextel Credit Problems.

So today, two separate clients who are considering cell site lease buyouts from Wireless Capital Partners received emails from their …

May 2, 2008 Ken Schmidt

AT&T Mistakenly Reduces Cell Phone Tower Lease Rent

AT&T (previously Cingular), through a lease optimization firm (either BlackDot or Md7), contacts a landowner with a cell phone tower …

June 24, 2007 Ken Schmidt

Global Tower Parters Appears to have purchased AT&T Decommissioned Cell Towers

One of our clients received a letter from AT&T Mobility, LLC regarding the AT&T cell tower that stated that Global …

June 13, 2007 Ken Schmidt

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