Failure to fund the FCC rip-and-replace program fully will lead to service shutdowns: Letter to Congress The Competitive Carriers Association and seven other organizations are calling upon Congre...
Listed to the podcast here It’s a slow climb to train enough tower technicians. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says the U.S. 5G rollout requires 20,000 of them. Unfortunately, that many technici...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Members of the National Wireless Safety Alliance said that tower contractors may soon begin to see requirements from carriers that a percentage of their employees have NWSA cer...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–There are numerous challenges ahead for 5G network deployments, as the next generation of wireless technology moves from the lab to field testing to commercial deployments over...
https://www.rcrwireless.com/20180222/5g/nate-unite-2018-challenges-5g
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–A combination of government spending on rural broadband deployment and new network build-outs are keeping the tower industry busy, and that momentum is only expected to build a...
Sprint beat T-Mobile US this week, but I don’t think they’ll be bragging about the circumstances any time soon. Marcelo Claure edged out John Legere as one of the most-hated CEOs in America, ...
Tower companies and carriers are using unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones, to photograph cell towers and even to transport equipment to the tower tops. The next step will come when ...
After three months of safe climbing, the cell tower industry suffered three deaths in May. The latest fatality is a 19-year-old tower climber in Kentucky. While completing work for S&S Tower Serv...
Crown Castle acquiring Tower Development Corporation Crown Castle announced the acquisition Tower Development Corporation, an American tower company that owns and operates 336 towers in both the ...
https://www.rcrwireless.com/20160422/business/crown-castle-acquires-tdc-american-tower-viom-tag8
NAB, NATE frustrated over ‘unrealistic’ auction timeline The 600 MHz incentive auction is now underway, but not everyone is happy about the auction timeline. In this highly anticipated auctio...
https://www.rcrwireless.com/20160401/cell-tower-news/600-mhz-auction-timeline-unrealistic-tag8