Ken Schmidt

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

Crown Castle and Nextel Revenue Sharing

On a few occasions now, clients of ours with Crown Castle tower ground leases have received proposals to either purchase…

15 years ago

AT&T-T-Mobile Merger Impact on Tower Companies 2

A follow up story by the Wall Street Journal mentioned reports from American Tower and SBA who confirmed the number…

15 years ago

And Immediately They Pounce…

As landowners and tower owners just start to hear of the AT&T - T-Mobile merger news, the lease buyout firms…

15 years ago

Public Tower Company Exposure to AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

We went through the annual reports for 2009 for Crown Castle, American Tower, and SBA Communications to gauge which of…

15 years ago

lightRadio and the “End of Cell Towers”

Recently, Alcatel sent out a press release for their lightRadio cube that stated that "New Wireless Advances could mean the End of Cell Towers". …

15 years ago

Why is Clearwire Terminating My Lease- Part 2

A recent article about Clearwire in Wireless Week doesn't directly address lease terminations by Clearwire, but does suggest some reasons that…

15 years ago

Why is Clearwire Terminating My Lease?

Clearwire has been notifying landowners that they are terminating some leases. Here is what we believe is happening.

16 years ago