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SITA’s Good and Bad for 2025
Good and Bad for 2025 Rather than the usual brag-fest, here’s what actually happened in 2025—the good, the bad, and the stuff that keeps me
March 3, 2026
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Will Satellites Replace Cell Towers? Unpacking Black Dot’s Claims.
Recently, Black Dot (a cell tower lease optimization company) has been contacting landowners with a new slick produced video where they claim that cell towers
February 11, 2024
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Cell Tower Builds & Wireless Technology
2024 Rural Cell Tower Lease Update – Steel in the Air
As we enter 2024, we thought it might be helpful to summarize what we have been seeing with new leases and existing leases in rural
December 1, 2022
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Cell Tower and Cell Site Development
Our 2022 Predictions for the Wireless Industry
Steel in the Air’s 2022 Predictions for Cell Tower Leasing and Valuation While 2021 certainly impacted many industries negatively, the wireless industry wasn’t one of
January 18, 2022
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What We Found Most Interesting in American Tower’s Q1 2020 Earnings Call.
American Tower announced earnings earlier this week and we reviewed their earnings call transcript to get a better feel about what went right and wrong
May 1, 2020
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GAO Report Say AT&T’s FirstNet Ahead of Schedule, but User Experience Varies
In terms of deliverables for FirstNet, AT&T seems to be ahead on most accounts. The chart below shows their progress in the two primary phases.
January 29, 2020
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Verizon Adds CBRS to Macrocell- Mischaracterizes New Antennas as Radios
Verizon’s site acquisition agent reached out to our client to propose a “swap of (9) existing radios with (9) new radios”. They suggested to the
July 31, 2019
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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 with Tillman Infrastructure has been.
January 8, 2019
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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 carefully and have some observations.
November 8, 2018
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Our Predictions for the Wireless (and Wired) Industries in 2018
Every year, we put together our prognostications for the coming year. This year, we are obviously a little late – primarily because the beginning of
March 20, 2018
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SITA’s Good and Bad for 2025
Good and Bad for 2025 Rather than the usual brag-fest, here’s what actually happened in 2025—the good, the bad, and the stuff that keeps me…
- 5G ·
Will Satellites Replace Cell Towers? Unpacking Black Dot’s Claims.
Recently, Black Dot (a cell tower lease optimization company) has been contacting landowners with a new slick produced video where they claim that cell towers…
- Cell Tower Builds & Wireless Technology ·
2024 Rural Cell Tower Lease Update – Steel in the Air
As we enter 2024, we thought it might be helpful to summarize what we have been seeing with new leases and existing leases in rural…
- Cell Tower and Cell Site Development ·
Our 2022 Predictions for the Wireless Industry
Steel in the Air’s 2022 Predictions for Cell Tower Leasing and Valuation While 2021 certainly impacted many industries negatively, the wireless industry wasn’t one of…
What We Found Most Interesting in American Tower’s Q1 2020 Earnings Call.
American Tower announced earnings earlier this week and we reviewed their earnings call transcript to get a better feel about what went right and wrong…
- Cell Tower Builds & Wireless Technology ·
GAO Report Say AT&T’s FirstNet Ahead of Schedule, but User Experience Varies
In terms of deliverables for FirstNet, AT&T seems to be ahead on most accounts. The chart below shows their progress in the two primary phases. …
Verizon Adds CBRS to Macrocell- Mischaracterizes New Antennas as Radios
Verizon’s site acquisition agent reached out to our client to propose a “swap of (9) existing radios with (9) new radios”. They suggested to the…
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 with Tillman Infrastructure has been. …
- Cell Tower Builds & Wireless Technology ·
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 carefully and have some observations.…
Our Predictions for the Wireless (and Wired) Industries in 2018
Every year, we put together our prognostications for the coming year. This year, we are obviously a little late – primarily because the beginning of…