Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-13 Thread Eric Rogers
Back when it was Cingular, I tried getting on a tower they own. They wanted $1600/mo and an engineering study done (usually $2500 or so). I just talked to the land owner, and he let me build a tower on equally high ground and I am spending WAY less than $1600/mo and I OWN the tower for

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-13 Thread Tom DeReggi
Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: D. Ryan Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers Seconded.. WOW, they are obnoxious. I just spent 6 months working

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-13 Thread Tom DeReggi
: JohnnyO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers you can't afford it JohnnyO - Original Message - From: Mike Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-13 Thread D. Ryan Spott
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: JohnnyO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers you can't afford it JohnnyO - Original Message - From

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-13 Thread Tom DeReggi
in the portfolio may be different than another. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: D. Ryan Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-12 Thread JohnnyO
you can't afford it JohnnyO - Original Message - From: Mike Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:29 PM Subject: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers Has anyone worked with a cell company for collocation on THEIR towers? IE:

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-12 Thread Mike Hammett
: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers you can't afford it JohnnyO - Original Message - From: Mike Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:29 PM Subject: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers Has anyone worked with a cell company

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-12 Thread D. Ryan Spott
Seconded.. WOW, they are obnoxious. I just spent 6 months working with an outsourced, outsourced, outsourced tower lease management company for Verizon. (yes, 3 TIMES removed from the company) to be told nope, you are too small, we are waiting for ClearWire to come spend money with us This

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-12 Thread Travis Johnson
In our area, Edge Wireless is a regional cell company (actually a subsidiary of ATT). They have 90 towers in my coverage area. We tried once to get on one of their towers. It was a 3 page application that had to be submitted along with a $3,000 application fee (that was NON refundable).

Re: [WISPA] Cell Company Towers

2008-01-12 Thread Blake Bowers
Used to be, many of them, like US Cellular left the engineering decisions to their local techs to decide. Now, pretty much all of them require an analysis to go on their towers, last time I had a customer quoted it was 1600 for USCC. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them