Cell Tower Lease Blog

Is Your City 5G-Ready??

While the 5G wave is moving rapidly across the United States, the question your city must answer is “Are we ready?” 5G is a new wireless network that is being built using small cells. Small cells provide wireless service via a connection to fiber optic networks. These...

CNBC Report – Cell Towers May Become Obsolete? Not So Fast

One of the most frequent questions Vertical Consultants receives is “Will 5G make cell towers obsolete?” The quick answer is “No”. 5G is not a vehicle for the replacement of existing cell towers, but rather a means for improving their value and necessity. There are...

5G – What Your City Needs To Know

What is 5G? The 4G wireless networks that most of us have access to use relatively low radio frequencies compared to new 5G networks that are currently being built out. The high frequencies used by 5G allow for many upgrades over 4G. They allow faster connections,...

5G – How Churches Can Benefit

Churches have been, and will continue to be, approached by wireless companies looking to install equipment necessary for the development of wireless networks. Churches are usually asked to place a traditional cell tower on a portion of their raw land not being used, a...

3 Common Misunderstandings About Cell Tower Leases

A cell tower lease can be an asset for a property owner, but most property owners accept unfavorable terms because they don't understand the real value of their property to the tower company. For the most part, tower companies will attempt to pay as little as they can...

Cell Tower Lease Renewals: Don’t Miss Potential Opportunity

Have you recently been contacted about renewing your cell tower lease? Property owners are constantly contacted by telecommunication companies who want to extend lease agreements for years beyond the current lease expiration date. A renewal offer is the best...

Hugh Odom Joins MarketScale Radio To Discuss Sprint/T-Mobile Merger

By early February, we should know whether or not the carrier industry will be left with three key players: AT&T, Verizon, and on the horizon, a merged Sprint and T-Mobile. The merger, though it’s been approved by the DOJ and the FCC, has been tied up in a lawsuit...

5G – Crown Castle Cell Towers Increase In Value

Crown Castle is the second largest cell tower operator in the United States that was founded in 1994 and is based in Houston, Texas. Crown Castle has a little less that 40,000 cell towers and approximately 87,500 miles of fiber located throughout the United States....

The Cell Tower Industry – A 2020 Status Report

The Big 3 Of Cell Tower Companies The three largest players in the cell tower industry, Crown Castle, American Tower and SBA Communications (the ‘Big 3”), own approximately 75% of all the cell towers in the United States. These cell towers are hosts to “Tier One”...

Everything You Need To Know About Cell Tower Lease Buyouts

Click here to watch the video. If you are considering a cell tower lease buyout, you want to ensure two things. First, you need to determine if a buyout is really the best decision. You could miss out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of rental income by agreeing...

Cell Tower Ground Leases – Understanding The Basics

What Does Ground Lease Mean? Most cell tower leases are typically structured as a ground lease, where the landlord only leases the rights to certain ground space on their property and the tenant owns the structure/improvements on that space, in this case a cell...

5 Reasons That Cell Tower Leases Will Be Worth More In 2020

Considering a cell tower lease in 2020? Whether you are negotiating a brand new contract or reviewing a cell tower lease renewal, don’t sign anything until you know the full value of your site! As we usher in a whole new decade in 2020, the constantly changing...