Ken Schmidt

Will T-Mobile/Sprint’s Merger Plan for 5G Home Broadband Work without Significantly Higher Capex?

The 3/6/19 FCC Filing by T-Mobile attempts to recharacterize how the merger “benefits” the consumer by expanding fixed or nomadic…

7 years ago

Winners and Losers of the FCC Small Cell Order

On January 14, 2019, the FCC’s Declaratory Ruling and Third Report and Order went into effect and significantly reduced the…

7 years ago

What Makes Cell Towers Competitive?

Recently, Fierce Wireless ran an article about AT&T’s threat to public tower companies about how “successful” their tower development project…

7 years ago

Verizon’s Adds Insult to Injury to Cities After Successful Lobbying the FCC to Reduce City Small Cell Fees

So here it comes - after Verizon, AT&T, and others successfully spent tens of millions on lobbying the FCC and…

7 years ago

Merry Christmas – Your Property Tax Just Went up $14,000 due to your Rooftop Cell Sites

A client of ours reached out to us yesterday with the following request: “The City of Philadelphia is undergoing a…

7 years ago

DISH’s NB-IOT Network Plans- More than Just a License Saver Design?

As pointed out by Inside Towers, construction drawings for a DISH NB-IOT installation are available here. We reviewed the drawings…

7 years ago

Why Did My Crown Castle Lease Revenue Share Payments Go Up or Down?

A number of our clients have ground leases with Crown Castle that contain revenue sharing clauses. They contacted us recently…

8 years ago

AT&T Wants to Buy Your Tower! (Well, Not Really)

A client of ours owns more than a few cell towers that have AT&T as a collocation tenant.  They recently…

8 years ago

Small Cell Leasing For Municipal Electric Utilities and Coops After State Small Cell Legislation

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation to the Florida Municipal Electric Association, that I reworked here to make…

8 years ago

American Tower’s Aggressive Response to Build-To-Relo Towers

Previously, we wrote about Tillman Infrastructure, a tower company that has expanded significantly to build towers near existing towers to encourage…

8 years ago