HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Wireless infrastructure is one of the fastest-growing industries in the nation, but until recently there has been no formal training program for workers in this industry. Wireless trade association PCIA has worked to change that during the past 18 months. Industry...
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...
Today the Federal Communications Commission adopted an order that has been described as the "Super Bowl of regulatory proceedings for those in the wireless infrastructure industry."
The specific provisions of the order include:
·Defining the terms of Section 6409(a) of the Spectrum Act and developing rules...
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 some noteworthy small cell experts.
Hetnet update
Mobile subscribers want reliable, homogeneous coverage, which is enabled...
NATE joins FCC safety workshop
Two months ago the FCC announced that it would host a tower climber safety and injury prevention workshop in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14. An industry event this huge seems like something the National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) would...
PCIA has won a $750,000 grant from the Department of Labor to establish standards for wireless training programs, and certifications to enable workers to meet those standards. The grant is part of the federal government's broad initiative to fund job-specific training, a program which...
For PCIA President Jonathan Adelstein, this year's State of the Union address was something of an epiphany. The former FCC commissioner realized that the White House was hard at work on an issue that is near and dear to the wireless industry: skills-based technical...
FCC streamlines antenna rules
The FCC made a decision late last week sure to make tower owners happy. Part 17 of rules and regulations for towers was streamlined, giving greater clarity to tower marking, lighting and registration. The update is intended to address what many...
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...
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...
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...
Orlando, Fla. – Bill Smith, president of network operations and AT&T Services, told his audience at this week's PCIA 2014 Wireless Infrastructure Show that vendors should not worry that AT&T's planned purchase of DirecTV could divert network spending. "I don't think anybody should be...
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 all projected a continuation of current growth trends. Specifically, the group highlighted network densification...
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,...
With AT&T's new ad campaign set to make DAS and small cells household words, wireless infrastructure trade organization PCIA and the HetNet Forum are asking the Federal Communications Commission to remove barriers to deployment. The trade associations are asking the FCC to streamline the...
Two industry groups that support wireless infrastructure are asking the Federal Communications Commission to "categorically exclude" distributed antenna systems and small cell deployments from environmental and historic review processes.
PCIA--The Wireless Infrastructure Association and the HetNet Forum have submitted comments in the FCC's’s proposed rulemaking on...
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...
Carriers and tower companies are expected to invest $34-$35 billion per year in wireless infrastructure through 2017, and that investment will create alomst 1.5 million new jobs. Those numbers come from a report commissioned by PCIA The Wireless Infrastructure Association, authored by a former...
Wireless carriers rely on a variety of contractors, program managers and "turf vendors" to build and maintain wireless infrastructure. This webinar will examine the infrastructure services ecosystem by looking at the differing approaches that the major carriers take to deployment, sharing the perspectives of...
With the ever-increasing demand for tower climbers and the increased number of recent tower deals, RCR Wireless News thought the time was nigh to introduce a weekly Tower Technology weekly wrap-up. Each week we will gather all the top stories in the world of...
With the ever-increasing demand for tower climbers and the increased number of recent tower deals, RCR Wireless News thought the time was nigh to introduce a weekly Tower Technology weekly wrap-up. Each week we will gather all the top stories in the world of...
For those not in the know: towers are big business. As in “big money” with a “B,” which stands for “billions.” Think there is any doubt? Just check out the reported $5 billion or so AT&T is looking to get for its nearly 11,000 towers.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – While the larger tower operators garnered most of the spotlight at this week’s PCIA Wireless Infrastructure event, they were not the only ones to make news. CTI Towers, which controls more than 800 towers across the country, said it had secured...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – PCIA CEO Jonathan Adelstein has had what could be deemed a “dream” first year as head of the wireless trade association, with seeming unbridled support from government regulators and insatiable demand for the products and services offered up by PCIA’s members....
