DISH’s NB-IOT Network Plans- More than Just a License Saver Design?
As pointed out by Inside Towers, construction drawings for a DISH NB-IOT installation are available here. We reviewed the drawings …
Why Did My Crown Castle Lease Revenue Share Payments Go Up or Down?
A number of our clients have ground leases with Crown Castle that contain revenue sharing clauses. They contacted us recently …
AT&T Wants to Buy Your Tower! (Well, Not Really)
A client of ours owns more than a few cell towers that have AT&T as a collocation tenant. They recently …
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 …
American Tower’s Aggressive Response to Build-To-Relo Towers
Previously, we wrote about Tillman Infrastructure, a tower company that has expanded significantly to build towers near existing towers to encourage …
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 …
20 Things Leaseholders Must Know About the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger!
On 2/11/2020, the final barrier to the Sprint/T-Mobile merger has been removed as a judge has ruled in their favor …
Impact of Proposed T-Mobile/Sprint Merger On Public Tower Companies in US
Before the announcement by Sprint and T-Mobile of their merger, Reuters ran a story that suggested that a T-Mobile/Sprint deal “may …
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 …
Weird Revenue Sharing Clause
One of our clients received a proposal from a tower company that included a revenue share clause. Generally, revenue shares …