Best Practices for Landowners, Government Entities & Venue Owners

Are Top Cell Tower Lease Consultant Awards Real?

Short answer: almost never. Longer answer below, because if you're a landowner trying to figure out whether the consultant you're…

1 week ago

SITA’s Good and Bad for 2025

Good and Bad for 2025Rather than the usual brag-fest, here's what actually happened in 2025—the good, the bad, and the…

2 months ago

Between a DAS and a Hard Place: Chilmark’s Difficult Legal Reality

The current situation on Martha’s Vineyard is a textbook example of what happens when an ODAS (Outdoor Distributed Antenna System)…

4 months ago

DISH Wireless Lease Excuse Letter

In October 2025, Steel in the Air obtained a letter sent by DISH Wireless LLC to a rooftop landlord’s attorney,…

6 months ago

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…

9 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…

12 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…

2 years 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…

2 years 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