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Cell Tower News: 100% tie-off 24/7 website launched; tower as ‘half-assed tree’

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. New safety website The National Association of Tower Erectors announced earlier this year at NATE Unite 2014 a new 100% tie-off awareness campaign to make safety at...

Cell Tower News: 2014 PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show recap

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Just as we expected, this week's PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show saw the tower companies more vocal than they have been in a while. This week's cell tower...

Cell Tower News: Tip to prevent copper theft; brotherly tower opposition

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. It's been a quiet week in the tower industry leading up to PCIA's Wireless Infrastructure Show. Since most companies have posted their first quarter earnings already,...

Cell Tower News: Supreme Court to hear T-Mobile US cell tower case

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Tower companies and carriers are certainly getting their day in court lately. Last week it was a federal court debating police use of cell tower...

Cell Tower News: Court Mulls Tower Data; Towers No Health Risk

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. Police have used data culled from cell towers for a while now to help in solving crimes, and it has largely been ignored by the general...

Cell Tower News: Copper Thieves Strike Again; State Laws Impact Towers

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. The plague of copper thefts continues for tower companies. This time a thief in the Chattanooga, TN area stole $300 worth of copper from a local...

Cell Tower News: OSHA Cites Pinpoint; 150ft Climber Rescue

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. A flurry of cell tower related news has swept across the internet since last we reported. The top story this week involves what could have been...

Cell Tower News: Airport climber falls; struggle for towers continues

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. Our top story this week comes from Corpus Christi, Texas, where an airport worker was injured while climbing a communications tower for repairs. The tower collapsed, causing the man to fall...

Cell Tower News: Climber deaths bring scrutiny to carriers

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. It is an understatement to say that this year has been tragic so far when so many tower climbers have died within the first quarter. In response, OSHA handed out stern...

Cell Tower News: 2 more tower deaths; cities use fake tower devices

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. 2014 is quickly becoming a tragic year for the tower industry. It is with a heavy heart we report that there have been two more tragic tower deaths this week. The...

Cell Tower News: Cell tower possible key to missing plane

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. Theories regarding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines 370 include one that could involve a cell tower. Some believe the plane took an alternate route, one that would have passed over a...

Cell Tower News: Help a fallen climber; town loses $1.5M over tower

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. Help a fallen climber We lead this week's cell tower news with a plea to help a climber in need. Tommy Jeglum fell 50 feet from a tower last June and managed...

Cell Tower News: NATE Unite 2014; Tower helps in murder case

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. Last week two of the biggest events in the world of telecom happened simultaneously: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, and NATE UNITE in San Diego, California. As such, there's plenty...

Cell Tower News: Tower climber falls & survives; TE Connectivity & ALU DAS Partnership

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. This week's update will be short and sweet since the industry is focused on all the happenings at NATE Unite and Mobile World Congress, so expect a lengthier update next week. When...

Cell Tower News: OSHA warns tower industry; CommScope’s top of tower plug & play

Welcome to this week's edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. Ever since the fatalities a few weeks back, the tower industry has been very quiet. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) used the radio silence to write an open...

Cell Tower News: Tower tragedy has history, SBA’s $1.5B financing

Welcome to this week's edition of cell tower industry news, brought to you by Towercrews.net. The tower tragedy in West Virginia we reported on last week that led to 3 deaths had something of a precedent for multiple parties involved. The towers are owned by...

Cell Tower News: Tower tragedies claim 4 lives

It is with a heavy heart we bring you this week's cell tower news. It was a devastating weekend, with two tower tragedies in different parts of the country that claimed a total of four lives. The first was in Clarksburg, W.Va., where two towers...

Cell Tower News: DAS Super Bowl; Crown Castle’s revenue growth

Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system news. Super Bowl Sunday is less than a week away, so it's hard for sports fans to think of anything else,...

Cell Tower News: CPS Energy $41M tower sale; tower scam leads to prison

Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system news. Crown Castle continues to make headlines with tower purchases, this time from CPS Energy. CPS Energy's tower sale is...

Cell Tower News: 6 winter climbing tips; Tower Xchange Americas

Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system stories. While hoopla surrounding the "polar vortex" may have subsided, we're still in the dead of winter in many parts...

Cell Tower News: Cell tower catches fire; Crown Castle operates as REIT

Welcome to our weekly collection of all the top cell tower news stories, where we cover global, national, regional, local and distributed antenna system stories. It's the first full week back to work of the new year and it seems that news is happening...

Cell Tower News: Biggest climbing mistakes; Vertical Consultants accreditation

Happy New Year and welcome to the first 2014 edition of cell tower news. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS and regional/local news. Things might be a little slower due to the holidays, but that hasn't stopped Inside Tower from giving a helpful list...

Cell Tower News: Tower climber wakes from coma; lawsuits over deaths

Welcome to this Christmas week edition of cell tower news. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS and regional/local news. After reporting so many climber accidents and deaths this year, it's exciting to be able to share the great news of a climber who fell...

Cell Tower News: Tower radiation deemed harmless; Dallas Cowboys get DAS

Welcome to the weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of cell tower companies. We cover top-level industry stories, DAS, and regional/local news. Cell tower radiation: it's a topic that has concerned communities for as long as towers have existed. It even shapes debates on...