Cell Tower Builds & Wireless Technology

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…

3 months ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 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…

5 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…

5 years ago

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 –…

6 years ago

Scandinavian Vacation Slideshow (Of Cell Sites and Towers)

My wife and I visited Denmark, Sweden, and Norway while attending a friend's wedding in Denmark.   While there, I…

7 years ago