Ken Schmidt

Recent Statistics on Cell Use in the US

"According to a Merrill Lynch report published at the end of 2005, the United States is enjoying a year-over-year growth…

20 years ago

Cell Tower Industry Partially Responsible for Difficulty Zoning Towers

One Disclaimer: This following commentary is my opinion and, since Steel in the Air is my company, it's Steel in…

20 years ago

Cingular and AT&T Merger Succeeding (at perturbing users)

A recent study by Consumer Reports regarding wireless service finds that the Cingular merger has not succeeded in increasing customer…

20 years ago

Global Signal/ Sprint Tower Lease To Easement Conversions

Global Signal recently purchased through a long term lease 6000+ cell phone towers from Sprint PCS. In response to these…

20 years ago

Blackdot and Cingular offer Landowners the Opportunity to Remove Their Own Tower

Landowners with cell tower leases who are being hit with termination notices from the "NEW" Cingular are now being granted…

21 years ago

Municipalities Undervalue Cell Tower Leases by Bidding

I recently read another story about a municipality that created an auction to bid off the rights to lease its…

21 years ago

TMobile Cell Tower Landowners being Contacted to Renegotiate Lease

So yet another carrier chooses to enlist the services of lease renegotiation companies. The game is the same- either you…

21 years ago

Total Cell Towers and Cell Sites by Carrier

From an American Tower Presentation to RBC: Total number of cell sites per carrier: Nextel: 20,000 Sprint: 25,000 Cingular: 44,000…

21 years ago

Sprint/Nextel Landowners Receive Cell Tower Lease Renegotiation Letters

It appears that BlackDot has been retained by Sprint/Nextel to help renegotiate the cell tower ground leases. For those of…

21 years ago

Carriers Looking for "Minor Changes"

Many cell tower owners and site owners have been approached by site acquisition agents for Cingular (trademarked- no affiliation to…

21 years ago