Crown Castle

The tower industry continues to offer excellent returns to companies that own and operate cell towers, but the tower construction business may be under some pressure. Crown Castle merges into …

FCC, Department of Labor launch TIRAP at workshop After talking about it for weeks, the Federal Communications Commission (in conjunction with the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health …

Americans want mobile broadband, and they want good jobs with potential for growth. The wireless industry can deliver both, but only if adequate training is available for the workforce. Department …

Next week the wireless industry converges in Chicago for HetNet Expo. Panelists at the show include leading analysts and executives from the distributed antenna systems world as well as a …

Verizon Communications has hired the same investment bank that helped AT&T and T-Mobile US sell their towers to Crown Castle, according to Bloomberg. New York’s TAP Advisors is an investment …

Verizon considers divesting tower assets Last year we reported on Crown Castle’s huge deal with AT&T; the tower giant bought almost 10,000 towers for $4.85B. Apparently this was food for …

In infrastructure news this week, Sprint’s spending is in the spotlight, Verizon’s towers may be for sale, Alcatel-Lucent has a major new contract, and Rackspace is going it alone. Infrastructure …

Crown Castle buys fiber assets Crown Castle has acquired roughly 800 miles of fiber in Maryland, northern Virginia and Delaware through the purchase of 24/7 Mid-Atlantic Network. Analyst Jennifer Fritzsche …

Stadium DAS deployments continue Infrastructure providers say the DAS RFPs keep coming from public venues, especially sports arenas. This week JMA Wireless said that Crown Castle will deploy JMA’s Teko …

The U.S. government is looking at a way to raise billions in tax revenue, but it could come at the expense of some tower companies. A tax reform bill drafted …

Welcome to this week’s edition of cell tower industry news, created by Jarad Matula and brought to you by Towercrews.net. OSHA cites S&S for W.Va. collapse You’ll likely recall when we …

Distributed antenna systems provide connectivity behind the scenes, out of sight, even underground in some cases, and at times they have been as hard to find in corporate financial results as …

The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Crown Castle sees strong carrier spending, adds small cells Tower giant Crown Castle International (CCI) reported second quarter revenues of $916.3 million, …

Crown Castle oDAS in Utah Utah’s Department of Transportation expects to be able to monitor weather and traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon, thanks to a new distributed antenna system it …

As the nation’s top four carriers work to offer nationwide, high-speed data service, more cell towers are now supporting multiple carriers. But co-location is not enough; operators and tower companies …

In infrastructure news this week, Ericsson is diversifying its leadership team, and tower companies appear unfazed by the prospect of carrier consolidation. Ericsson appointments Ericsson has added three new members …

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 …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Surging mobile data demand means that wireless operators need to add coverage and capacity to their networks, and that often means co-locating a cell site on a …

Orlando, Fla. – Leaders from the nation’s three largest tower companies took the stage to kick off PCIA’s 2014 Wireless Infrastructure Show. Crown Castle International, American Tower and SBA Communications …

The nation’s three largest tower companies continue to benefit from demand for tower space driven by the transition to LTE networks, and by the seemingly insatiable consumer appetite for mobile …

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 …

In early April, I had the pleasure of participating in the NEDAS Forum event in New York City. The forum had attendees and speakers covering all aspects of the deployment value chain.