Tower Talks with Inside Towers

This month the podcast of The Wireless Water Cooler, hosted by WIA CEO and President Joanthan Adelstein and Inside Towers Managing Editor Jim Fryer, got to chat with Leticia Latino, CEO of Neptuno USA and Adria Horn, Vice President of Workforce for Tilson. Workforce development was the subject of the day, exploring the state of the workforce in our industry, what’s been done recently to develop it and how successful has it been? 
 
 Additionally, Jonathan and Jim discussed the recent agreement reached between the FCC, the ACHP, and the NCSHPO.

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In our latest Tower Talks edition, John Celentano, Business Editor and his guest, Duane Macentee, Executive Director of the National Wireless Safety Alliance (NWSA) discuss NWSA's role in developing a professional tower technician workforce through its trade certification programs. 

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To celebrate and continue the conversation that has occurred around the long-time office staple, the water cooler, WIA's President and CEO Jonathan Adelstein and Inside Towers' Managing Editor Jim Fryer have launched the first episode of their new monthly podcast series that will center on industry discussion, “The Wireless Water Cooler.” 

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In the latest Tower Talks podcast, John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor and his guest Lindon Hayes, CEO & Founder, Essentia, Inc. engage in an interesting and informative conversation on how Essentia’s eSpeed Technology Platform works for its fiber cable and small cell customers.

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Inside Towers Managing Editor, Jim Fryer, had a chance to talk with the President and CEO of WIA, Jonathan Adelstein about next week's virtual Connect (X) All Access event. Fryer and Adelstein also announced a new monthly podcast venture (as yet unnamed) that will center on the wireless infrastructure market with a lively, topical and insightful look at the industry. The podcast may also feature invited guests ranging from top tower and carrier execs to key players in Congress and at the FCC. 

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John Celentano discusses with Wells Fargo Senior Analyst Jennifer Fritzsche the latest COVID-hued analysis of the tower market, the outlook for carrier capital investment through year-end and the prospect of tower companies expanding their infrastructure play beyond towers. 

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Tower project management platform provider, Sitetracker released an extensive survey of the wireless infrastructure market. Entitled 2020 Telecom Infrastructure Provider Outlook, the survey covered a wide range of issues facing the tower market. John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor spoke with Sitetracker VP Marketing Brett Chester about the report centered around site deployment and maintenance.  Sitetracker surveyed hundreds of participants from around the world posing 50-plus questions including the impact of COVID-19 on the industry.

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Inside Towers managing editor Jim Fryer interviews Shane Ward, CFO of CTI Towers in the first episode of a series on mid-sized tower companies and their perspective on the market.

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FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr brought his climbing gear to NATE Unite 2020. He needed it when he went to Raleigh-based Tower Engineering Professionals for a couple of safety training climbs before speaking at the show. Carr spoke with Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief Leslie Stimson about that and his workforce development efforts to grow 5G infrastructure apprenticeships, on our Tower Talks podcast.

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With the news that the National Association of Tower Erectors changed part of its name and branding, Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief Leslie Stimson spoke with Jimmy Miller during NATE UNITE 2020 in Raleigh, NC. Miller is the Chairman of NATE and the president and chief executive officer of MillerCo in Gulfport, MS. The re-branding is part of a larger NATE effort to attract young people to the telecommunications workforce and better explain the job roles of tower workers. 

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