With the ever-increasing demand for tower climbers and the increased number of recent tower deals, RCR Wireless News thought the time was nigh to introduce a weekly Tower Technology weekly wrap-up. Each week we will gather all the top stories in the world of towers and tower-related technology.
- Crown Castle and AT&T closed a deal on a sale of towers, for $4.85B.
- At PCIA 2013 it was announced that CTO Towers secured $30 million in financing and closed on the purchase of five towers
- All of this moving and shaking has tower execs bullish on the industry’s growth.
- TE Connectivity revealed several big-league DAS deals.
- NexxCom Wireless now provides wireless communications link for the London Stock Exchange.
- Leading hotels are now installing Cellphone-Mate’s signal boosters.
- The Light Brigade, a provider of fiber optic training, has dropped the “the” and relaunched the brand.
- Clearfield, a fiber network specialist, ranks No. 14 in Forbes’ annual ranking of the “best small companies in America.”
- Huawei’s small-cell backhaul demos in EANTC tests
- Agilent Technologies released an application note to help you brush up on spectrum analysis fundamentals.
- AT&T has nationally approved Sunsight’s Antenna Alignment Tool and updated their alignment requirements.
- Why not have the best of both worlds? Verizon Wireless proposes a tower in a small Montana town that will be both baseball stadium lighting and a cell tower.