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...
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...
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AT&T is reportedly talking with Telesites to lease Mexico towers
AT&T’s push into Mexico is reportedly set to include a tower agreement with rival America Móvil’s recently spun off Telesites business.
Bloomberg recently reported that the two companies were in talks over a leasing agreement that...
Cell towers that stalk?
Anyone who reads this weekly segment with regularity knows how contentious an issue tower placement is. This week Verizon is back at it again causing a family in Tarzana, Calif., grief over tower placement. But what makes this one stand out amongst the...
Crown Castle said today that it has agreed to sell its 1,800 Australian towers to a consortium of investors led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. The sale price is roughly $1.6 billion, and Crown Castle expects to net about $1.3 billion since it...
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure may be getting a lesson in small cells. Claure said goodbye to his wife and newborn baby after Mother's Day to head for Japan, where he has been meeting with Softbank executives to discuss the Sprint network. Here in the...
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...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Anyone who thinks a slowdown in carrier spending is threatening the health of the infrastructure industry was not at PCIA's Wireless Infrastructure Show this week. Record attendance at the show, record revenue for PCIA and a sold-out exhibit hall were all...
Crown Castle CEO Ben Moreland likes to call fiber "the horizontal tower" and this week he announced plans to broaden the tower company's fiber reach with the $1 billion purchase of Sunesys, a wholly owned subsidiary of power giant Quanta Services. Crown Castle said that...
PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show preview
As the wireless infrastructure industry converges in Florida for The Wireless Infrastructure Show, vendors are consolidating, tower companies are growing and carriers are reevaluating.
Consolidation changes the landscape
At least three trends are driving consolidation among vendors in this space: supply chain...
Cell towers becoming obsolete?
CNBC spoke with the founder of Parallel Wireless at the Founders Forum Smart Nation Singapore conference, who informed the major media outlet that he believes cell towers will soon become obsolete. He believes that individual cellphones will become the cell tower...
Thefts include New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island
Spring is in the air. The birds are chirping, the weather is beautiful and apparently cell towers look like trees bearing valuable fruit for those criminals ambitious enough. Three different sets of criminals have been thieving from cell towers in...
Crown Castle beat analysts' revenue estimates during the first quarter, and raised its outlook for 2015 site rental revenue by roughly $15 million. First quarter site rental revenue was $768 million and total revenue was $941 million. The company is now projecting $3.08 billion...
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...
Massapequa Park may be unable to combat DAS install
The mayor of Massapequa Park, N.J., said that despite opposition from residents and municipal staff, there may not be any way to derail Crown Castle's plans to install a distributed antenna system node.
Residents turned out to...
Stadiums, cities, companies, colleges, hospitals and hotels are all clamoring for the best possible wireless coverage, creating more demand for investment than the carriers can meet. Carriers have to prioritize their investments, and their first choices are often driven by major public events. Networks...
JMA Wireless upgrades distributed antenna system product line
JMA Wireless upgraded its distributed antenna system portfolio to include multi-input, multi-output functionality, which serves to increase data throughput.
The upgraded Omni-MIMO ceiling-mounted unit is equipped with two 698-2700 MHz X-Pol antennas, which are PIM certified for up to...
New York and Boston are likely beneficiaries of Verizon Wireless' plan to add capacity to its network using outdoor small cells. The carrier said there are a handful of areas in which it had hoped to increase its spectrum holdings, but will instead use...
American Tower eyes South Africa
Apparently when big business even thinks about making a big move, it makes headlines. That happened again this week as sources close to the situation report that American Tower is considering the purchase of some of MTN Group's network of...
Ntelos sells 85 towers
Grain Management announced the closing of a deal to acquire 85 towers from Ntelos Holdings. The towers are said to be worth $2.2 million in cash flow, though the exact cost of the transaction has yet to be disclosed. This deal...
Crown Castle owns Down Under footprint of 1,800 towers
Cellular infrastructure giant Crown Castle is considering a sale of its Australian tower assets, which comprise some 1,800 towers that support carriers Optus, Telstra and Vodafone Hutchison Australia.
The company announced that it is exploring a sale...
Deals could pocket Verizon $15B per reports
Verizon Communications is reportedly moving closer to an asset sale that could include both tower and wireline properties, netting the telecom giant close to $15 billion.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the proposed deals would include several partners...
Some football fans who work for Crown Castle, TE Connectivity, Galtronics, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile US will be watching the Super Bowl carefully this weekend. They'll be checking out the crowd shots and watching the fans who are glancing repeatedly at their laps....
