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 them. This past year was a particularly strong year for tower companies and landowners. Looking forward into 2022, we see more of the same. Wireless Service Provider Predictions. Wireless service […]
One of our municipal clients has a water tower with T-Mobile and Sprint on it. T-Mobile has proposed to add antennas and equipment with Band 41 (Clearwire 2500 MHz spectrum) to T-Mobile’s rad center. See the image below with the antennas that service B41. Because the lease the client has with T-Mobile prevents the addition […]
On one of our municipal client's towers, Sprint submitted a request to replace three existing antennas with new antennas that add 2.5GHz capability to their equipment. The subject tower is in a difficult zoning jurisdiction and one where Sprint really doesn't have any other options. Their collocation rent was on the higher side but not unreasonably […]
First 6-sector cell site we have seen from T-Mobile. Most cell sites have 3-sectors. The additional sectors are added for capacity- note the LTE and AWS/PCS designations.