5G

Will Satellites Replace Cell Towers? Unpacking Black Dot’s Claims.

Recently, Black Dot (a cell tower lease optimization company) has been contacting landowners with a new slick produced video where…

3 months ago

Our 2022 Predictions for the Wireless Industry

Steel in the Air’s 2022 Predictions for Cell Tower Leasing and Valuation While 2021 certainly impacted many industries negatively, the…

2 years ago

What We Found Most Interesting in American Tower’s Q1 2020 Earnings Call.

American Tower announced earnings earlier this week and we reviewed their earnings call transcript to get a better feel about…

4 years ago

Will T-Mobile/Sprint’s Merger Plan for 5G Home Broadband Work without Significantly Higher Capex?

The 3/6/19 FCC Filing by T-Mobile attempts to recharacterize how the merger “benefits” the consumer by expanding fixed or nomadic…

5 years ago

Winners and Losers of the FCC Small Cell Order

On January 14, 2019, the FCC’s Declaratory Ruling and Third Report and Order went into effect and significantly reduced the…

5 years ago

Impact of Proposed T-Mobile/Sprint Merger On Public Tower Companies in US

Before the announcement by Sprint and T-Mobile of their merger, Reuters ran a story that suggested that a T-Mobile/Sprint deal “may…

6 years ago

The main points non-technical reporters get wrong about 5G

I find it fascinating how non-technical reporters (for example An Investor's Primer: 5G, the Internet of Things, and Augmented/Virtual Reality and…

6 years ago

Our Predictions for the Wireless (and Wired) Industries in 2018

Every year, we put together our prognostications for the coming year. This year, we are obviously a little late –…

6 years ago

Top 10 Things the Wireless Industry Doesn’t Tell You about Small Cells

By Ken Schmidt, Omar Masry, and Rick Edwards Are you a homeowner who's recently received a notice indicating that a…

7 years ago