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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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Winners and Losers of the FCC Small Cell Order

On January 14, 2019, the FCC’s Declaratory Ruling and Third Report and Order went into effect and significantly reduced the …

January 25, 2019 Ken Schmidt

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

Verizon’s Adds Insult to Injury to Cities After Successful Lobbying the FCC to Reduce City Small Cell Fees

So here it comes – after Verizon, AT&T, and others successfully spent tens of millions on lobbying the FCC and …

December 11, 2018 Ken Schmidt

Merry Christmas – Your Property Tax Just Went up $14,000 due to your Rooftop Cell Sites

A client of ours reached out to us yesterday with the following request: “The City of Philadelphia is undergoing a …

December 4, 2018 Ken Schmidt

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 …

November 8, 2018 Ken Schmidt
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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 …

October 22, 2018 Ken Schmidt

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 …

September 28, 2018 Ken Schmidt

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 …

August 15, 2018 Ken Schmidt

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 …

June 11, 2018 Ken Schmidt

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 …

May 25, 2018 Ken Schmidt

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