In this episode of 5G Talent Talk, Carrie Charles speaks with Ken Schmidt, President of Steel in the Air, Inc. Steel in the Air provides guidance to thousands of clients across the United States on cell tower and cell site leases. Ken’s many years...
Drone pilots prefer these drool-worthy drones for tower inspections.
Multi-rotor drones — the drones that look like little helicopters but with more than one blade — make the best tower inspectors among drone types, because they can hover steadily in one spot and take pictures. ...
The Florida Keys are a special place. My then-girlfriend, now wife Katherine and I moved there in 2008 after we finished college. As a graduation gift, my parents took us to Key West for a week-long vacation; a little less than a month later...
The communication industry is already benefiting from the use of drones. Tower climbing is seen as one of the most dangerous jobs and telecommunication operators can avoid risks through the use of drones for telecommunications tower inspection. Commercial drones are changing the way operators...
Cell tower deal valued at $1.65B
Indian telecommunications firm Reliance Communications on Friday signed a nonbinding deal with asset manager Brookfield to sell a 51% stake in its cell tower business for 110 billion rupees ($1.65 billion).
Under the terms of the agreement, the stake in Reliance...
The tower talks will be initially valid for a three-month period
Saudi mobile operator Mobily entered talks with Saudi Telecom Company that could lead to the creation of a mobile tower joint venture.
“The operators have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly explore options for...
The deal with Bouygues for an initial 230 telecom towers stipulates the ultimate acquisition of up to 500 sites
Spanish wireless infrastructure operator Cellnex Telecom announced plans to enter the French market with the acquisition of 230 telecommunications towers from French telco Bouygues Telecom.
Cellnex confirmed...
Offers for cell tower company Inwit from Cellnex/F2i and EI Towers
Telecom Italia is evaluating two binding offers for the company’s 45% stake in cell tower holding unit Inwit. The European operator said the offers were made by a consortium comprising Spanish operator Cellnex and Italian...
Looking back, cell tower power used to be treated a lot like the electrical grid: essential, reliable, taken for granted, a tad dull. But today, cell tower power is a different story. It is an exciting source of technical and business innovation running at...
Telxius will initially manage 15,000 towers
Spanish telecom operator Telefonica has created a new company called Telxius, which will manage certain infrastructure assets of the group. The establishment of the new global company is part of the optimization strategy for the company's asset portfolio.
In the first...
Carriers upgrades DAS, small cells, cells on wheels and more ahead of big game
More than 75,000 football fans are expected to descend on the San Francisco metropolitan area for the Feb. 7 Super Bowl. To keep up with the expected demand for LTE capacity,...
Indian telecom operator Reliance Communications is set to announce the sale of its stake in telecom tower company Reliance Infratel to a private equity firm.
According to local press reports, the deal is expected to be announced in the coming days. Reliance expects an enterprise value of...
Telecom unemployment is 1.4%, the lowest point in 2015, down from ten-year high of 11.5% in August 2010
In this week's Telecom Careers Insider, RCR Wireless News takes a look at the following industry trends:
Telecom unemployment - By the numbers
Austin Technology Council quantifies tech funding...
Smile, you're on camera
Cell tower battery theft is becoming an increasingly common occurrence. This time the crime took place in Warren, Mich. According to local police, the cell tower site thefts started occurring in July and were believed to be perpetrated by a single individual....
Rosye Cloud, senior adviser of veteran employment for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, describes how veterans and employers can leverage the Veteran Affairs' GI Bill for the Telecommunications Industry Registered Apprenticeship Program.
Veteran Affairs' GI Bill funds wireless workforce apprenticeships
The Veteran Affairs' GI Bill, when applied...
On the inaugural episode of Cell Tower News, host Joey Jackson of RCR Wireless News discusses cell tower site acquisition and attendant topics with Bryan Darr, president and CEO of Mosaik Solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yqzeWFznOQ
Darr has spent most of his professional life in the wireless industry, beginning his...
Indian telcos band together to address dropped calls
Dropped calls are becoming an increasing problem for Indian telcos, leading operators to band together in calling for a universal national policy to address the issue.
Top telco executives from a dozen Indian operators gathered for a press...
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...
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...
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...
Terrorists are trying to put a stop to mobile networks in India, and they are using deadly force to do it.
Two civilian tower workers were killed and three more were injured in multiple attacks on mobile infrastructure in North Kashmir and Srinagar. As a...
Crown Castle has acquired three metro fiber operators in the past eight months. Its first deal was viewed at first as a one-off to fill a network density need. But after the April 30 announcement of the $1 billion acquisition of Sunesys, it’s become...
Cell tower would be 75-feet tall, disguised as evergreen tree
AT&T wants to build a 75-foot-tall cellphone tower adjacent to a Eugene, Ore., church, but local residents and officials are pushing back against the carrier’s capital ambitions.
The wrangling has been going on four weeks and involves...
Thai villagers to force True Corp. to take down tower
Residents of Khiriwong, a subdistrict of Krabi in Thailand, voted in an April 10 referendum to require True Corp. to remove an area cell tower due to fears of radiation.
A report in the Bangkok Post also notes...
