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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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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

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

AT&T’s Brilliant Strategy to Double Dip from Public Funding to Build a Better Wireless Network (Investor Research Note from Steel in the Air)

  We have been getting a lot of questions from investors related to FirstNet equipment and the potential impact on …

August 29, 2017 Ken Schmidt

Questions for SBAC Earnings Call This Afternoon

With SBAC poised to announce earnings this afternoon, and with AMT and CCI’s previous positive reporting for macrocell growth, we …

July 31, 2017 Ken Schmidt

5 Themes from WIA Show 2017

The Wireless Infrastructure Show is the pre-eminent tower show in the US. The WIA who puts on the show consists …

May 31, 2017 Ken Schmidt
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Comcast Wireless 2.0: This time it could actually work.

Implications for TowerCos and Construction Companies Tickers: CMCSA, COMM, MTZ, DY, CCI, AMT, SBAC Tags: Ken Schmidt, Wireless infrastructure Background: Analysts …

April 10, 2017 Ken Schmidt
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