Despite living here for over a year now, I just came across my first small cell in the City of Syracuse. The site and equipment are located on and adjacent to the rooftop of Rosie’s Bar & Grill just west of Syracuse. Below is a photo showing the rooftop small cell- which includes a […]
Last year in April, we wrote about how Crown Castle and Mobilitie respectively approached the City of Orlando regarding small cells. In that post, we described how each company approached the application process and why the City approved the Crown Castle small cells while it determined that the Mobilitie applications were incomplete. We recently […]
As we have done in years past, we look ahead to 2017 and share our forecasts for the coming year. All things considered, 2016 was a mediocre year for the industry. 2017 looks to be all about repositioning – meaning that while we don’t expect growth in CapEx, we do anticipate industry development in some […]
We have been starting to see requests being made to our landowner clients where Verizon is seeking to get consent to add utilities. Initially, the pitch is that Verizon needs additional fiber for advanced technologies. When asked why they need a new utility easement across the property and why they can’t use the existing […]
On September 20, Comcast’s Brian Roberts announced that Comcast Wireless – a second iteration wireless venture – is scheduled to roll out in mid-2017. While details have been limited so far, here is what we anticipate based upon 20+ years in the wireless industry.
Verizon wasn’t happy about Sprint stealing their “Can you hear me now?” spokesperson or Sprint’s efforts to suggest that Sprint’s network reliability performs within 1% of AT&T and Verizon‘s networks. Verizon issued their own press release full of pretty interesting facts that attempt to demonstrate that network reliability is important- but that Verizon’s network is […]
We were curious what markets we would start seeing modifications requests come in for new antennas on existing cell towers for 5G and LTE-U installations. These trials in most cases will require new antennas with new frequency bands. So we created the map that you can see below- or see the online version of […]
As an addendum to our earlier article about Crown Castle and Mobilitie small cell proposed installations in Orlando, we thought it would be helpful to include a drawing of a Verizon proposed small cell from Massachusetts. In this case, Verizon is installing a Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) with two small cells to augment […]
So as a clear indication that Wall Street is very focused on small cell initiatives by the public tower companies, Crown Castle started reporting their small cell financials separately from their tower financials in the Q1 2016 quarterly earnings and call. They must have been receiving a significant number of questions from the analysts because […]
We compiled a comparison of the three most recent wireless carrier tower company deals. It is important to note that these numbers aren’t exact. For example, the Tower Cash Flow for Verizon/American Tower are projections from the first year of operation. On the AT&T/Crown transaction, the number of towers is rounded off. Lastly, some like […]