Tower Talks with Inside Towers

Tower climbers work in all kinds of weather that affect their health and safety, especially in hot and humid conditions. Industry and government agencies are making a concerted effort to establish appropriate Heat Injury and Illness Prevention safety standards and practices in construction industries but some of these may be difficult to adhere to as written for our tower climbers. Bryant Bertrand...

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 Pract...

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...

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

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. Support the show

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 t...

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

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, Engi...

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 infor...

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

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 t...

This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of June 10, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show

This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of May 28, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show

Satellite-based services for decades have provided a variety of applications across commercial, industrial and government markets. Different satellite systems – GEO, MEO, LEO - serve different purposes. Recent discussions on direct satellite to cell phone connections or broadband internet connectivity address just a part of the broader satellite-based communications business. Greg Quiggle, Senior...

This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of May 13, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show

Telecom equipment distributors play a pivotal role in supplying all the infrastructure elements that make broadband and mobile networks work. Distributors stock their warehouses with thousands of products from hundreds of manufacturers and deliver orders for these products from network operators and their contractors to wherever the equipment is needed in the field. Melissa Seibring, Director of M...

This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 29, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show

There is more and more fiber being deployed in the middle mile and deeper into the network to interconnect data centers and enterprises, provide wireless carriers with cell site backhaul, and enable telco and ISP deployments. Clearfield, a fiber management and connectivity provider, designs and builds the products needed to power active equipment at the edge and manage and deploy the fiber cables...

This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 15-19, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show

Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor recently chatted with U.S. Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) on the Wireless Water Cooler podcast. The five-term Congressman is Chair of the Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee and was formerly Vice Chair of the Communications & Technology subcommittee. In this lively and can...

The tower business is alive and well, despite the slower pace of network builds among the U.S. mobile network operators. While the public tower companies are guiding to low single-digit growth in 2024, there is movement among the smaller, private tower companies. Private tower deals tend to be small, from a few towers to a few hundred towers at a time. Still, tower acquisitions are taking place, b...

This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 1, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show

This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of March 4, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show

This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of February 26, 2024.  For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show

Jim Tracy has worked in the wireless infrastructure business for many years, from climbing towers to running his own tower contracting business, to serving as Board Chairman of NATE and now as President of the Tower Family Foundation (TFF).   In conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, Tracy shares insights gained from his long experience in the tower contracting business,...