This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of June 21, 2021. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here. 

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This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of June 14, 2021. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here. 

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Your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of June 7, 2021. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here. 

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If you missed last week's highly-attended Pro Panel you can now capture the key takeaways here on our Tower Talks Podcast. Panelists included Cesar Ruiz, President & CEO, Learning Alliance Corporation, Todd Schlekeway, President & CEO, NATE, Heather Gastelum, Sr. Manager, National Site Safety, T-Mobile, Jonathan Eastman, President, VIKOR , 

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Your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of June 1, 2021. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here. 

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In a Special Edition of Tower Talks, Inside Towers’ co-founders, George Reed and Eddie Esserman, join Business Editor John Celentano to discuss the introduction of a new publication.

Inside Towers is launching ‘Intelligence by Inside Towers’ or simply, ‘Intelligence’. This new publication is a significant departure from our regular daily newsletter.

Rather, it is a quarterly publication that offers a ‘deep dive’ into the wireless infrastructure ecosystem to identify market trends, evaluate mobile network operators and infrastructure company capital expenditures, offer investor perspectives, assess relevant M&A transactions, and more.

As an annual subscription service, Inside Towers Intelligence includes four quarterly reports and an exclusive Intelligence briefing following each published report.

Join the call to gain some interesting insights into Inside Towers’ newest publication or visit www.insidetowers.com/intelligence for more information or to subscribe.

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Your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of May 24, 2021. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here. 

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Join Inside Towers Managing Editor Jim Fryer in this second installment of “Tower Masters” as he talks with Tarpon Towers CEO, Ron Bizick, ll. This series focuses on the men and women who, for decades, have not only survived, but thrived as independent operators in the wireless infrastructure field. They have a unique perspective to share and Mr. Bizick is certainly no exception.

Bizick is the Co-founder and CEO of Tarpon Towers, a Florida-based company he started in 2007 that now has roughly 400 sites in its portfolio. Prior to that, he was the COO and Executive Vice President of Global Signal. He began his tower career joining SBA in the first six months of their inception in 1990 and rose to Executive Vice President and COO before departing 12 years later.

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Tower climbing has been cited as one of the most dangerous jobs anywhere. 

Even though industry associations and government agencies go to great lengths to establish safety standards and practices, working above ground level is still dangerous.

Beyond just working at heights, a big part of the problem is the physical toll that climbing up and down tall structures demands. Fatigue becomes a critical factor and raises the risk level for workers.

Tools are available to assist climbers in a variety of at-height work activities on cell towers, wind turbines, utility high-power transmission towers, and more.

Bryant Bertrand, CEO of Ronin Revolution has been instrumental in developing such tools. He discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers’ Business Editor, his company’s invention of, and applications for, the Ronin Lift, an ascender product designed to assist climbers.

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Tower leasing is a big topic these days.

U.S. mobile network operators, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, are upgrading or modifying master lease agreements with the Big 3 public tower companies, American Tower, Crown Castle and SBA Communications, as these MNOs implement their 5G network builds.

Big 3 towercos cater to MNO near- and long-term needs. But mid-tier and small tower owners and landowners often get into uncomfortable negotiations when MNOs want to locate on their tower or build a tower on their land.

What leasing terms and conditions should apply? What are appropriate lease rates? And how are these rates determined?

Ken Schmidt, President, Steel in the Air, an expert on site leasing, unpacks these issues in conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor.

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