[WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread chuck
I've got a remote rural location where we're thinking of putting up a 100' tower on a mountain owned by a large customer. Turns out that location can see one of our existing networks, which is great. However, the customer has extremely poor (or non-existent) cell phone coverage and would like

Re: [SPAM] [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread Frank Watts
First of all just because you don't have a signal does not mean a cell carrier is waiting for you to put up a tower but that said I built a 120' Commercial tower back 3 years ago and total cost to build was around 50k. That was a tower to support cell and two way radio at 90mph wind load. I think

RE: [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread Brian Webster
A tower to support a cell carrier would easily approach $100,000 Thank You, Brian Webster -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:19 AM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier? I've

Re: [SPAM] [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread chuck
At 11:43 AM -0400 3/14/07, Frank Watts wrote: First of all just because you don't have a signal does not mean a cell carrier is waiting for you to put up a tower but that said I built a 120' Commercial tower back 3 years ago and total cost to build was around 50k. That was a tower to support

RE: [SPAM] [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread chuck
At 10:53 AM -0500 3/14/07, JohnnyO wrote: 15K seems awful low for a tower on top of a mountain. You can build a 100ft Rohn45/Rohn55 for 15k - on flat / level land where there aren't any major challenges Then again - No Cell carrier I know of would go on such a tower. What kind of tower

Re: [SPAM] [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread Dawn DiPietro
Chuck, My first impression of the situation is that your customer is seeing dollar signs because he has heard cell companies pay big bucks to locate on towers but does not actually realize all the costs associated with such a tower that a cell company might possibly locate on. I have seen

Re: [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread Blake Bowers
First off, reception is not a good gauge. There are many factors that play into whether or not you can attract a carrier. High spots used to be the king locations, but now due to loading issues, and frequency re-use they are not always the premier spots anymore. No one in the business is

Re: [SPAM] [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread Blake Bowers
Cell carriers normally use site acquisition people, contract most of the time. Not brokers. Another thing that prevents them often from considering smaller companies towers is agreements they have with the larger companies. As an example, we have agreements with two carriers - flat rate

Re: [SPAM] [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread chuck
At 12:35 PM -0400 3/14/07, Dawn DiPietro wrote: Chuck, My first impression of the situation is that your customer is seeing dollar signs because he has heard cell companies pay big bucks to locate on towers but does not actually realize all the costs associated with such a tower that a cell

Re: [SPAM] [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread chuck
At 12:03 PM -0500 3/14/07, Blake Bowers wrote: Cell carriers normally use site acquisition people, contract most of the time. Not brokers. I used the wrong term (not being in the business). That's essentially what I meant. I've come across the site acq. people before. Another thing that

RE: [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread Gino Villarini
Depends what the Cell co puts in, I have seen small Cell sites around here on 80' and 100' poles Gino A. Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier?

2007-03-14 Thread RickG
When I was with ATT we budgeted $150k per 100' monopole... On 3/14/07, Brian Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A tower to support a cell carrier would easily approach $100,000 Thank You, Brian Webster -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: