Best Practices for Landowners, Government Entities & Venue Owners

Dish Network’s Wireless Exit Strategy and Its Impact on Lease Valuation

For the past several years, Dish Network’s entry into the wireless carrier business has been a perplexing saga of big…

3 months ago

Why Lease Buyout Companies Buy Cell Tower Leases

By Ken Schmidt | Steel in the Air One of the most frequent questions we get from leaseholders is "Why…

6 months ago

US Cellular Possible Acquisition by T-Mobile or Verizon

Impact of T-Mobile and Verizon's Potential Acquisition of U.S. Cellular on Cell Tower Landowners and Owners Introduction The telecommunications landscape…

1 year ago

Is the Rivalry Intensifying Among Major Tower Companies? A Look at Recent Events Suggests It Might Be.

In a telling shift, AT&T recently relocated a cell site from an American Tower Corp. (ATC) site to a Crown…

1 year ago

Steel in the Air’s 2024 Cell Tower Industry Predictions

As we do every year, we like to make predictions about the year ahead.  (It’s near the end of March,…

2 years ago

Examining the Objectivity of Surveys/Polls for Private Networking

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of studies commissioned by system integrators and OEM vendors claiming that in-building…

2 years ago

STEEL IN THE AIR’S 2023 PREDICTIONS FOR CELL TOWER LEASING AND VALUATION

2022 turned out to be a strong year for wireless activity.  Wireless capital expenditures were the highest in the last…

3 years ago

FCC Orders Landowner to Remove Abandoned Tower

In a surprise ruling, the FCC determined that a landowner was responsible for removing a 375’ guyed tower on their…

3 years ago

Verizon Finds Landowners Don’t Like ROFR Clauses- So They Rebrand Them.

The wireless carriers are actively seeking to add right-of-first-refusal clauses (ROFR) to their new and extended cell site lease agreements. …

4 years ago

Online Training On RF Radiation That Everyone Can Understand

Radio Frequency energy or RF has been in the news and is not likely to go away. Between 5G and…

5 years ago