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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: LTE Deployment

The Real Reason T-Mobile Increased Its Data Cap to 50GB

(Guess what – it isn’t because they feel their network can handle it!) T-Mobile recently increases their data cap to …

October 2, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Will Apple’s New iPhone X and iPhone 8 Work with all your Wireless Carrier’s Frequencies?

So, with great fanfare, the iPhone X and iPhone 8 were announced yesterday. The phone display looks amazing while it …

September 13, 2017 Ken Schmidt

AT&T’s Brilliant Strategy to Double Dip from Public Funding to Build a Better Wireless Network (Investor Research Note from Steel in the Air)

  We have been getting a lot of questions from investors related to FirstNet equipment and the potential impact on …

August 29, 2017 Ken Schmidt

AT&T Wins FirstNet but TowerCos are the Real Winners

FirstNet Award to AT&T Confirmed: Checks Confirm Amendment Activity before Official Announcement Tickers: T, AMT, CCI, SBAC Tags: Ken Schmidt, …

March 30, 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
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Steel in the Air – Wireless Predictions for 2017

As we have done in years past, we look ahead to 2017 and share our forecasts for the coming year. …

January 4, 2017 Ken Schmidt

5G and LTE-U Test Markets for Each Wireless Carrier

We were curious what markets we would start seeing modifications requests come in for new antennas on existing cell towers …

May 13, 2016 Ken Schmidt

Crown Castle (CCI) Small Cell Initiatives and Reporting

So as a clear indication that Wall Street is very focused on small cell initiatives by the public tower companies, Crown …

April 26, 2016 Ken Schmidt

Not quite time to cut the cord.

AT&T is adding LTE to all their cell sites, even the rural ones.  This is part of their Project VIP- …

October 14, 2014 Ken Schmidt

Is HomeBase really a Home Run?

Along with AT&T’s recent acquisition of DirectTV, it committed to expanding its LTE network to “an additional 15 million customer …

October 8, 2014 Ken Schmidt

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