This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of October 17, 2022. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here.

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With a high level of 5G and fiber deployments underway, teams of field technicians are needed to do the installation and testing. This activity requires a workforce of trained and skilled technicians that the wireless carriers, their equipment suppliers, and tower companies typically contract to do the work. Workers often are in the field for days at a time and may have to travel to where the work is needed.

FordCom Wireless is a field services organization with a specific strategy in what it offers and where it operates. FordCom’s CEO Brian Ford and John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor discuss what makes FordCom unique in the infrastructure business and how the company develops its field force.

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Despite the daily news about a weak economy, the wireless infrastructure business is in a high cycle of activity. Mobile network operators are pushing ahead with 5G cell site construction, mid-band spectrum build-outs, and supporting fiber deployments.
All this activity requires a large, skilled workforce to get the job done. Marshaling and managing a workforce in hiring, training, and retaining skilled technicians to handle all the work that needs to be done is a challenge.

Previous podcasts with training organizations and trade associations have covered workforce development issues.

Ian Stringfellow, Vice President of Operations at Ontivity talks to John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about what it takes for a contracting organization like Ontivity to put, and keep, boots on the ground.

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This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of October 10, 2022. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here.

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A lot of discussion in the tower business involves the big three publicly held tower companies and what they do to support their major mobile network operator tenants.

But in the United States, there over a hundred privately-owned tower companies that provide specialized services, either in specific geographic regions or for specific customer needs. Milestone Towers is one such company. Len Forkas, Milestone Towers’ founder and CEO talks with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about how his company differentiates what it does from other tower companies.

Len also shares some anecdotes on his Antarctic mountain climbing adventure, detailed in his book, ‘Cold Hard Truth.’ Profits from the sale of the book are donated to support his charity Hopecam’s work connecting children with cancer to their friends at school.

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This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of August 22, 2022. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here. 

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