The article is written tongue in cheek- I was just feeling a little rambunctious today about the myriad of “strategies” that lease buyout companies, tower companies, lease optimization firms, and wireless carriers use to try to convince landowners to do something that is not in their best interest.
9/23/15 Update: First of all, we’d like to mention that the term “Stealth” is a registered trademark of Stealth Towers. “Stealthy” can be used as
Steel in the Air recently completed a project for an investment bank where we examined the future of the tower construction market. We found as
Crown Castle has been sending letters to landowners suggesting that their failure to extend the ground lease might have serious consequences. Here is why we believe this is not true.
In going over our website statistics, we noticed that there is an increasing interest by landowners in having a cellular tower erected on their property.
On a few occasions now, clients of ours with Crown Castle tower ground leases have received proposals to either purchase or extend their ground leases.
A follow up story by the Wall Street Journal mentioned reports from American Tower and SBA who confirmed the number of leases impacted: American Tower
As landowners and tower owners just start to hear of the AT&T – T-Mobile merger news, the lease buyout firms and optimization firms have started
We went through the annual reports for 2009 for Crown Castle, American Tower, and SBA Communications to gauge which of the tower companies might have
Recently, Alcatel sent out a press release for their lightRadio cube that stated that “New Wireless Advances could mean the End of Cell Towers”. This sensationalist and ill conceived (IMHO) press
