Ken Schmidt

Is the Rivalry Intensifying Among Major Tower Companies? A Look at Recent Events Suggests It Might Be.

In a telling shift, AT&T recently relocated a cell site from an American Tower Corp. (ATC) site to a Crown…

2 years ago

Steel in the Air’s 2024 Cell Tower Industry Predictions

As we do every year, we like to make predictions about the year ahead.  (It’s near the end of March,…

2 years ago

Examining the Objectivity of Surveys/Polls for Private Networking

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of studies commissioned by system integrators and OEM vendors claiming that in-building…

2 years ago

Which US Tower Companies Were Most Active in Jan. 2024?

  We examined applications for environmental notice to the FCC for the last month.  Here are the companies that have…

2 years ago

Will Satellites Replace Cell Towers? Unpacking Black Dot’s Claims.

Recently, Black Dot (a cell tower lease optimization company) has been contacting landowners with a new slick produced video where…

2 years ago

PREPAID CELL TOWER LEASES AND EASEMENTS – WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in offers to landowners to "pre-pay" cell tower leases with a single…

2 years ago

Number of Cell Towers and Small Cells in the United States in 2023

The Wireless Infrastructure Association recently issued a white paper that included their estimates of the number of macrocells, cell towers,…

3 years ago

Verizon Finds Landowners Don’t Like ROFR Clauses- So They Rebrand Them.

The wireless carriers are actively seeking to add right-of-first-refusal clauses (ROFR) to their new and extended cell site lease agreements. …

4 years ago

Our 2022 Predictions for the Wireless Industry

Steel in the Air’s 2022 Predictions for Cell Tower Leasing and Valuation While 2021 certainly impacted many industries negatively, the…

4 years ago

Hey Wireless Industry- This is the Right Way to Request a Cell Tower Modification

We regularly review requests from carriers for cell tower lease modifications on our client’s structures and towers.  One of the hurdles we…

4 years ago