Ken Schmidt

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

Market for Cell Towers Red Hot

In recent weeks, we have heard evidence that the market for existing tower portfolios is red hot. Towers are bought…

21 years ago

Cingular AT&T Sued for Cell Tower Lease Renegotiation Letters

Cingular was sued by the City of Parma, Ohio for letters that they have sent to the landowners who have…

21 years ago

Interesting Cell Phone Statistics

Some statistics provided by CTIA that I found interesting. When the industry started, only 23 wireless phone conversations could occur…

21 years ago

Cell sites on air for 2005

Projections from the Stanford Group suggest that there will be between 14,000 and 15,000 cell sites turned on in 2005…

21 years ago

Spectrasite to be the target of an acquisition?

9/23/2015 Update   In early-2005, we speculated on which cell tower company would end up purchasing Spectrasite (the contenders are listed…

21 years ago

Tallest Towers in the World

I came across a website with the tallest structures in the world-and included the top 10 (all towers) or so…

21 years ago

A Wireless Carrier Sending out Threatening Letters to Landowners

A unnamed wireless carrier who has recently merged has been sending out letters to landowners with leases for a cell…

22 years ago