Ken Schmidt

Sale of T-Mobile Towers: The Impact on Leaseholders

In the 2nd quarter of 2012, T-Mobile retained TAP Advisors to sell its portfolio of wireless towers. T-Mobile is hoping…

14 years ago

New Technology – Understanding the Hype

As a landowner in the wireless industry, you may be aware of several advancements in technology recently that have claimed…

14 years ago

Pending Sprint Nextel Terminations

In late 2010, Sprint announced in a rather public way that as part of their “Network Vision” plan, they intend…

14 years ago

Afraid of Rocking the Boat: When to Build Your Own Tower

Rocking the Boat. A gentleman called us two days ago. He had been approached by a local tower company to…

14 years ago

Individual Masquerading as Steel in the Air Employee

A woman from Virginia contacted us today and indicated that she had met a man who was passing himself off…

15 years ago

Best Practices Guide for Lease Buyout/Optimization Companies

The article is written tongue in cheek- I was just feeling a little rambunctious today about the myriad of "strategies"…

15 years ago

When Stealthy Pine Trees Are Poorly Designed

9/23/15 Update: First of all, we'd like to mention that the term "Stealth" is a registered trademark of Stealth Towers.…

15 years ago

Not a Good Time to Be a Tower Developer or Manufacturer.

Steel in the Air recently completed a project for an investment bank where we examined the future of the tower…

15 years ago

Crown Castle’s Newest Lease Extension Ploy

Crown Castle has been sending letters to landowners suggesting that their failure to extend the ground lease might have serious…

15 years ago

Cell Tower On Your Property Page

In going over our website statistics, we noticed that there is an increasing interest by landowners in having a cellular…

15 years ago