Ken Schmidt

CCI expresses interest in buying Verizon towers

Crown Castle (CCI) is the largest of the Big Three U.S. tower companies, and currently owns 40K towers nationwide (followed…

12 years ago

Is HomeBase really a Home Run?

Along with AT&T’s recent acquisition of DirectTV, it committed to expanding its LTE network to “an additional 15 million customer…

12 years ago

T-Mobile’s VoWiFi is more than just a band-aid. It’s strategic.

The Big Four Wireless Carriers (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile) are in the business of churning customers from another service…

12 years ago

Cable operators are rapidly deploying Wi-Fi hotspots resulting in a decrease in WSP’s ARPU.

The driving force behind this is the monetization of video-based demand, which relies on providing consumers the best user experience…

12 years ago

Uncarrier 7.0 – Yay or Nay?

T-Mobile’s solution to capacity issues (eg: too many people placing heavy demands on the network)?  Free femtocell coverage aka “Uncarrier…

12 years ago

Good news for rural landowners: more cell sites

Sprint adds 15 rural carriers to its Rural Roaming Network, an initiative that originally launched during the first half of…

12 years ago

Steel in the Air proudly launches a Spanish version of our new responsive website.

Bienvenido a Steel in the Air. Llevamos ayudando desde 2004 a propietarios privados y gobiernos locales en la tasación y…

12 years ago

Are U.S. carriers throttling Wi-Fi offload until after next year’s spectrum auction?

Are U.S. carriers holding out on Wi-Fi offloading until after next year’s spectrum auction? WiFi offloading is when carriers use…

12 years ago

Open Internet Rights Group Pushes for Net Neutrality

Open Internet Rights Group Public Knowledge plans to file net neutrality complaints against Verizon and possibly other Big 4 wireless…

12 years ago

How Verizon and AT&T are Throttling Data

Verizon’s latest ploy to move its customers away from unlimited data plans to a pay-per-gigabite model is under criticism by…

12 years ago