Field Dailies was recently awarded patent protection for its software system that supports submission of daily field reports and closeout documentation for the tower climbing industry.
Field Dailies, the pioneer and global leader in enabling cloud software solutions for telecommunication carriers, OEMs, and turfing vendors,...
Tower companies appear to be outspending carriers
U.S. carriers have been selling their tower portfolios to raise cash for spectrum purchases and deployment, and the move away from infrastructure ownership may extend to small cells and distributed antenna systems as well. Two of the three...
Customers are complaining about dropped calls and bad network connectivity after India’s South Corp. shut down 100 illegal towers across south New Delhi over the past month.
"The network issue has been there for the past few months, but call drops have become very frequent...
Vertical Bridge buys 43 towers
Vertical Bridge and one of its subsidiaries announced this week it will be entering into an agreement to purchase 43 towers from Townsquare Media. The towers are set to be purchased for $22.8 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments.
“We are...
Communications Workers of America continue working without new Verizon agreement; National Wireless Safety Association announces board of governors and roadmap for tower climber assessment and certification programs
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Outages in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama potentially caused by AT&T backhaul network
All four major U.S. wireless carriers – Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile US – experienced extensive network outages yesterday, apparently due to a hardware failure on AT&T’s network.
RCR Wireless News...
 Auto accident claims climber lives, memorial fund set up
Five tower climbers from Wingate Communications were driving in a pickup truck in Brooksville, Fla., this week when a box truck ran a stop sign, hitting the truck full force. After impact, a large amount of transmission fluid, gear oil...
Crown Castle, American Tower, SBACÂ report Q2 earnings
It's that time of year when the tower industry's largest companies report their earnings for the second quarter of 2015.
First up is Crown Castle. The company's net income increased from $23 million to a staggering $1.1 billion, largely due to the...
SBA Communications recently surprised some investors with news that it will sell its stake in ExteNet Systems, and today the company shed some light on the decision during its second-quarter earnings call. SBA Communications CEO Jeffrey Stoops said that it had doubled its initial...
American Tower said today that it already has more than 900 lease applications in the pipeline for the tower portfolio it recently acquired from Verizon. The nation's largest wireless carrier recently sold its towers to American Tower for $5.0 billion.
American Tower shared an update...
Learn more about NWSA's mission and benchmarking efforts in the industry
The National Wireless Safety Alliance has launched an official website. The organization officially launched in February of this year, the site is designed to "provide thorough, independent assessments of knowledge and skills and provide verifiable worker...
The four markets represent 10% to 12% of Bharti Airtel’s subscribers in Africa
Orange and Bharti Airtel have entered into an exclusive agreement to explore the possible acquisition by Orange of Airtel’s subsidiaries in Africa's Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville and Sierra Leone, the companies said...
Summer of tower theft continues
The months-long streak of cell tower battery thefts continued in both Illinois and Ohio this week. A few weeks ago in the Frankfort Township, Ill., police reported that sixteen batteries were stolen from a cabinet at a Sprint cell tower....
Fiber expansion to add 350 route miles to the network
Continuing to expand its fiber footprint, Colorado-based Zayo Group Holdings plans to hook up some 500 Seattle-area towers to fiber as part of a mobile infrastructure expansion strategy.
Zayo is providing the fiber-to-the-tower connections in service...
According to a recent report by media and communications analyst firm, SNL Kagan, active tower sites declined for the first time ever in 2014. The report points to carrier consolidation as a key factor for the contraction.
The decommissioning of now-defunct Nextel towers and the sidelining...
Centerline at odds with tower tech injury report
Earlier this week it was reported that a Massachusetts tower climber working in Gorham, Maine, fell from a 300-foot guyed tower owned by Crown Castle International. The man, yet to be identified, suffered serious injuries according to authorities on...
The company aims to sell additional towers in six African markets in the coming months
Indian telecommunications group Bharti Airtel has obtained nearly $1.3 billion from the sale of its telecommunication towers in five African markets. In a note to the National Stock Exchange of...
Towers will not keep New Yorkers connected
Big cities have the greatest need for cellular capacity, but they can also have the densest neighborhoods and the highest real estate prices. Manhattan, for example, has fewer towers per person than other major metropolitan areas in the...
Using drones takes out the risk associated with human inspection of cell phone towers
Carrier T-Mobile Netherlands will use Aerialtronics unmanned aerial systems, more commonly known as drones, to inspect some 5,000 antennas in the Netherlands.
T-Mobile Netherlands even has its own pilot who will remotely operate...
Update: This story has been updated to include the name of the previously unidentified man in this accident.
Pilot killed when homemade airplane struck cell tower
Tragedy struck in Corona, Calif., this weekend when a homemade airplane crashed into a monopine cell tower. Of the two...
Texas death could result in lawsuit
Earlier this year it was reported that Stephanie Gurney fell to her death from a cell tower in San Angelo, Texas, but at the time details surrounding the situation were unclear. With a potential lawsuit in the air, further details have...
3M is investing big money in the future of the climber safety industry with a $2.5 billion agreement to acquire fall-protection equipment maker Capital Safety from global investment firm KKR.
This is a strategic move for 3M, which believes increased regulatory focus on tower worker...
Cell tower gets cut down, hits power lines, leaves thousands without AC during summer in the desert
Law enforcement is claiming sabotage in the June 20 felling of a wooden, monopole cell tower in Wittmann, Ariz.
The tower fell on power lines, knocking out electricity to...
Virginia tower catches fire
A cellphone tower behind a high school in Newport News, Va., caught fire this week. Maintenance workers were doing some welding work on the tower when they noticed the fire started in the insulation. The fire in the insulation ran through the wiring...
