Which carrier pays the most for their leases on a general basis? To answer this question, Steel in the Air turned to our cell site lease database with more than 8,000 records of cell site lease information. We found every instance in the database where a carrier was a party to the lease and where lease rate data existed. We took the average lease rate for each of the larger carriers across all leases. Here’s what we found they pay relative to one another:
We used the lowest lease payment average from a carrier as a baseline and determined how much more percentage wise the other carriers pay. The results are interesting but likely statistically irrelevant:
Ideally, if a landowner or tower owner was looking to find the highest paying tenants, they would seek out AT&T, Sprint, and MetroPCS (now T-Mobile) while avoiding US Cellular. In reality though, these carriers seek out the landowner or the tower owner and you should just consider yourself lucky that they did.
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Hey Ken,
Perhaps Verizon numbers skew lower because their sites tend to be older, and started lower to begin with?