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This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of January 3, 2023. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here.

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Managing wireless and wireline telecom networks involves monitoring and interpreting a lot of data from thousands of sites and dozens of data points at each of those sites.

Network managers need to know the status of their sites at all times, especially when power outages or equipment failures occur. They rely on detailed site data to make informed decisions for appropriate corrective actions or to dispatch field technicians.

Jon Baars, Director-Sales & Marketing at Asentria discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, the business of site monitoring and how capturing and displaying large volumes of information helps to manage networks efficiently and cost-effectively.

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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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