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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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What Makes Cell Towers Competitive?

Recently, Fierce Wireless ran an article about AT&T’s threat to public tower companies about how “successful” their tower development project …

January 8, 2019 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
Map of states with RFPs for FirstNet state networks

Are states going to opt-out of AT&T’s FirstNet?

Now that the Rivada court challenge appears to be resolved, many pundits and experts expect AT&T to be awarded the FirstNet …

March 21, 2017 Ken Schmidt
Map showing small cells per state across US

Small Cells Per State in United States

To show the impact of 100,000 small cells being deployed in the US over the next few years, we looked …

March 13, 2017 Ken Schmidt
Small cell scoreboard.

SITA Research Reveals the Real Big Game in Houston was in Small Cells

A new competitive dynamic emerges in the fight for densification dominance Tickers: ZAYO, CCI (Disclosure- author holds positions in ZAYO) …

February 14, 2017 Ken Schmidt
Map of small cells and DAS nodes submitted for approval in Montgomery County, MD

A Tale of Two Small Cell Providers – Part Two

Last year in April, we wrote about how Crown Castle and Mobilitie respectively approached the City of Orlando regarding small …

January 11, 2017 Ken Schmidt

We Assessed the Accuracy of Wireless Coverage Maps per Carrier, and the Results Disappoint

It’s been a dozen years since Verizon’s catchphrase “Can you hear me now?” became a commonplace precept for any mobile …

January 25, 2016 Ken Schmidt

Our 2015 2nd-Half: Cell Tower Lease Forecast

The year of 2015 has started out flatter than most industry pundits expected.  The expectation was that first half 2015 would …

June 2, 2015 Ken Schmidt

How COAS Can Benefit from Cell Site Leases

In the United States, there are over 300,000 cell sites, encompassing those that are located on cell towers, other structures …

July 17, 2014 Ken Schmidt

CELL TOWER AND CELL SITE LOCATION DATA: A PRIMER

In reviewing some online commentary about cell tower location data on various forums and websites purporting to offer free cell …

November 24, 2007 Ken Schmidt

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