I’m not on any municipal water towers, have been on a couple private water tanks, that’s different. But I hear from other WISPs that $300-$500 is typical for maybe a couple backhaul dishes, 3-4 sectors and maybe a 900 omni. At the lower end of that price range, they might get some free Internet too.
But it’s supply and demand, and location, location, location. If they have the only high structure and all the cellcos want to mount their stuff there, the real estate will be worth more and you will get squeezed out. If there are several towers in town, and this one is the crappiest one in the worst location, they might be lucky to trade it for some free Internet. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] avg rent for village/city water tower I'm on a bunch for under $150/month in suburban Chicago. Then again, some others wanted $3,500/month. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Tim Reichhart" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 3:27:19 PM Subject: [AFMUG] avg rent for village/city water tower Guys This is for the people who is renting space on village/city water tower whats your avg rent or what did you guys agreed on rent? Because I have one village is trying sucker punch me into saying that I should give them 8-15k per year to rent space on there water tower and where they are getting this quote is because centurylink is paying them 15k per year for “ renting a small fiber optic cable facility to Century Link for $8000 annually” Which I feel that quote is unfair for an small wisp like me. I have explain to them that I am an small WISP and I am not like centurylink or any telephone company. Then they turn around emailed me again saying they just got an letter from an cell phone company wanting to rent space on there water tower. They also told me they are getting ready to install water smart meter and they will be placing antenna’s on there. Sounds like to me the village is trying some tricky crap to make me offer more money then what I offered to them. So I like you guys input into this. Tim
