Cell Tower Builds & Wireless Technology

Sprint site redundancies and upgrades. Know what to watch out for.

Sprint is working with Nokia Networks (one of three network vendors) to upgrade its Spark program. This means adding two…

12 years ago

lightRadio and the “End of Cell Towers”

Recently, Alcatel sent out a press release for their lightRadio cube that stated that "New Wireless Advances could mean the End of Cell Towers". …

15 years ago

BlackDot Wireless and AT&T Still Trying To Get Reductions

  Cell site lease groundowners who thought they had heard the last from AT&T and Blackdot after refusing to lower…

18 years ago

Ownership of Towers by the Carriers

9/23/15 Update: Number of Cell Towers Owner per Carrier It's been almost a decade since we've updated this blog post…

20 years ago

Total Cell Towers and Cell Sites by Carrier

From an American Tower Presentation to RBC: Total number of cell sites per carrier: Nextel: 20,000 Sprint: 25,000 Cingular: 44,000…

21 years ago

Spectrasite to be the target of an acquisition?

9/23/2015 Update   In early-2005, we speculated on which cell tower company would end up purchasing Spectrasite (the contenders are listed…

21 years ago

New iDEN Providers Popping Up?

9/23/15: Update on iDEN On July 1, 2013, Sprint shut down its (via its merger with Nextel) national iDEN network…

22 years ago