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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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Do Not Give Future Consent to Crown Castle (or any tower company)

What is “future consent” you might ask?  It is when a tower company asks for consent before they actually need …

November 14, 2019 Ken Schmidt
Map of cell tower and parcel annexation

American Tower and Home Developer Can’t Come to An Agreement Regarding Two Cell Towers

American Tower has two cell towers on a piece of property in Batavia, IL. A home developer appears to have …

September 13, 2019 Ken Schmidt

Pros and Cons of Having A Cell Tower on Your Property

Have you been approached to place a cell tower on your property, or have you recently acquired a property that …

September 5, 2019 Ken Schmidt

Verizon Adds CBRS to Macrocell- Mischaracterizes New Antennas as Radios

Verizon’s site acquisition agent reached out to our client to propose a “swap of (9) existing radios with (9) new …

July 31, 2019 Ken Schmidt

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 …

June 12, 2019 Ken Schmidt

Remember When Sprint Only Had 12 Employees? I don’t.

One of the joys of being on this side of the business is the relationships we form with landowners- both …

June 4, 2019 Ken Schmidt

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).

May 31, 2019 Ken Schmidt

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back; Verizon’s Small Cell Agreement with Syracuse

As a resident of the Syracuse area, I am excited to see Verizon and their interest to bring 5G via …

May 27, 2019 Ken Schmidt

Our Q1 2019 Wireless Update Top 10 Takeaways

A few weeks ago we visited a large investment bank to present our Q1 2019 Wireless Update  findings to a …

May 14, 2019 Ken Schmidt

Will T-Mobile/Sprint’s Merger Plan for 5G Home Broadband Work without Significantly Higher Capex?

The 3/6/19 FCC Filing by T-Mobile attempts to recharacterize how the merger “benefits” the consumer by expanding fixed or nomadic …

April 8, 2019 Ken Schmidt

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