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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: Wireless Lease Negotiations & Valuation

Small Cell Leasing For Municipal Electric Utilities and Coops After State Small Cell Legislation

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation to the Florida Municipal Electric Association, that I reworked here to make …

August 15, 2018 Ken Schmidt

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 …

May 25, 2018 Ken Schmidt

Opinion: Stories of small cell application agreements failure between carriers and cities are too often part of the wireless lobby efforts (in the media) to maintain profit margins.

This type of fluff pieces provide no actual statistical data on how most cities treat applications for small cells instead relies …

April 11, 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

Are Three Towers Really Necessary?

Zoning Board Questions Whether They Should Be Forced to Allow Three Towers Within 300' of Each Other First- start by …

December 8, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Akron, OH May Sell Water Tower and Cell Tower Ground Leases

  The City of Akron has decided to sell its cell tower and water tower leases to Everest Infrastructure Partners. …

December 6, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Desperate to Get Back at the Tower Companies: The Verizon, AT&T, and Tillman Infrastructure JV

Yesterday, in a surprise press release by Verizon, Verizon indicated that it had formed a joint venture with AT&T and …

November 14, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Not So Fast- California Governor Vetoes Small Cell Bill.

Sunday night, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a contentious statewide small cell bill (SB649) which is one of many similar …

October 18, 2017 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

Is This a Small Cell or Just a Small Macrocell?

So in this article about Verizon attachments to Arizona Power (APS) utility poles in the Phoenix market, it is interesting to …

September 7, 2017 Ken Schmidt

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