Recently, Alcatel sent out a press release for their lightRadio cube that stated that “New Wireless Advances could mean the End of Cell Towers”. This sensationalist and ill conceived (IMHO) press
Cell site lease groundowners who thought they had heard the last from AT&T and Blackdot after refusing to lower their ground lease rates are
9/23/15 Update: Number of Cell Towers Owner per Carrier It’s been almost a decade since we’ve updated this blog post (although we do keep our
From an American Tower Presentation to RBC: Total number of cell sites per carrier: Nextel: 20,000 Sprint: 25,000 Cingular: 44,000 (Other estimates show 50,000) Verizon:
9/23/2015 Update In early-2005, we speculated on which cell tower company would end up purchasing Spectrasite (the contenders are listed below). In May of 2005,
9/23/15: Update on iDEN On July 1, 2013, Sprint shut down its (via its merger with Nextel) national iDEN network completely. It plans to utilize
