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 …
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 …
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 …