Tower Talks with Inside Towers

We often hear about municipalities or individuals pushing back on new cell tower developments in their communities over location or aesthetics. A recent case involved two competing tower companies that went to court over a siting dispute with an interesting outcome.

Rod Carter, Partner, Jake Remington, Senior Counsel, and Joe Diedrich, Senior Associate, all with Husch Blackwell’s Telecom Law Practice, offer a briefing on the case and what transpired in conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor.

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In the U.S., large public tower companies hold a substantial portion of the communications towers in operation. The remainder are owned and managed by numerous smaller private companies that support a range of mobile network operators and other wireless service providers. Private tower companies often can be more agile and offer custom services to their customers. But there are challenges.

Yannis Macheras, CEO of Harmoni Towers discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, some of the opportunities and challenges for private tower companies.

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The digital infrastructure business continues to be dynamic and challenging. Bernard Borghei, tower company veteran and CEO of Symphony Wireless, shares his perspectives and outlook on the wireless market and overall digital infrastructure ecosystem with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor.

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This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of August 5, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here.

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Fiber optic systems are used everywhere to provide high speed connections to buildings, towers, and data centers. Increasing demand for high-speed data, streaming video and burgeoning AI-enabled services is driving construction and expansion of fiber routes to provide more connectivity. At the same time, the market has become a mix of large and small fiber operators, all competing for a piece of the business.

Tyler Coates, Chief Revenue Officer at FiberLight discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor the fiber market’s opportunities and challenges.

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This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of July 22, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here.

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Steel structural elements are designed to support the weight and wind loading that macrocell antennas and radio units create on a tower. More important, structural elements must be designed and installed to minimize passive intermodulation interference, or PIM, that is generated from transmitted and received RF signals reflecting off of these elements.

CommScope’s Chuck Mann, Senior Director, Engineering R&D and Jared Haines, Director of Product Line Management-Structures, talk to John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about structural design considerations, available products and innovations.

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iconectiv TruOps Common Language® is a distributed data registry that increases corporate revenues by streamlining network planning, service activation and technology rollouts via industry standard location and equipment identification codes. Using Common Language codes streamlines communication and management across the data network and telecom interconnection ecosystem and enables critical information exchange via operations support systems and other interface mechanisms. The platform is particularly applicable to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program.

Juan Carlos “JC” Ortiz, Principal-Corporate Business Development, and Mykola “Myk” Konrad, Senior Vice President-Head of Product at iconectiv, join John Celentano, Inside Towers, Business Editor to discuss Common Language codes and their benefits for the telecom industry.

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This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of July 15, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here.

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Planning and building digital infrastructure is hard and requires technical and project management capabilities and skills that few organizations can offer at scale.

Fullerton is an established engineering and construction management firm that handles projects for tower companies and communications service providers to deploy wireless or fiber networks, outdoors and inside buildings. The company takes a project from the architectural and engineering phase through coordinating and managing the flow of materials and labor needed to complete the job to customer specifications.

Kelly Lazuka, CEO at Fullerton shares her perspectives and outlook on the telecom infrastructure services business in conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers, Business Editor. 

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