Two issues.... 1) People so quickly forget the scale involved. It is more hassle for these companies to do business with a small entity than the revenue they would receive. Think about it. A sales office with 5-6 agents to manage the sales for the towers they own. Then there are 5-10,000 towers managed. Then think about the hassle to make agreements with the other large volume propsect customers. The time involved in considering all the special exceptions written in on every other small customer's tower agreement? If they wanted to do a global agreement with Clear wire, that takes 1 agreement made with the legal council, it would mean they had to look at 5-10,000 agreements if each tower had a colocater that only had space on one tower, which would mean legal fees times 5-10,000.
2) The cell providers are now looking at possibilties to do add-on services in mobile broadband, and do they really want to lease to a competitor? The way to get space on these towers, is to take a different angle. What that angle is, well thats for you to discover. And that is what will seperate you from all the others that are not successful. For me it may have been.... Making friends or earning the respect of the Tower agent, The person that owns the property the tower sits on, the local zoning board, etc etc. In Montgomery County, its required that the tower companies rent to other competitors. They are required to rent to atleast three other entities to get their towers approved in the first place. Maybe with Wifi its to add a value to the community, so residence stop complaining about the ugly cell tower? Maybe its sellling your potential to grow to larger volume. Maybe its persistence and just not going away or giving up. Maybe, its an offer to make the cell company look good, to combat negatism that had developed due to their anti-competition tactics that they are known for. If you want to get on the tower, you can likely find away to get on it cost effectively. But the arguement is is it worth it? Is it worth taking risk by compromising contractual terms that protect you? Absolutely NOT! Never pay money for being on a tower, without provisions to protect your investment. Your loss if they try to screw you later would be far greater than what you pay them to be on the tower. One way is to start the process to build the tower yourself. Send them a copy of the tower permit. And say they can compete against you when you become a tower owner with free space to rent, or they can rent to you, and save their margins from other colocaters, if they agree to do it before you build. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Ryan Spott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> 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 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 was for a tower overlooking a highway and a town with around 400 > people in it. I even offered to take "second rights" space on the > tower to allow them to kick me off with 90 days notice and still no go. > > ryan > > > On Jan 12, 2008, at 5:43 PM, JohnnyO wrote: > >> you can't afford it >> >> JohnnyO >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >> 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: AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, etc. Not interested in hearing >>> about >>> American Tower, GTP, etc. >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
