On a side note... I generally pay less to be on a cell tower than I do to pay to be on a commercial building roof top of equivellent height.
Cell Towers- More expensive to climb and mainteain, there fore less valuable Cell Towers- Dont have office space tenants, there fore only valued for the value of the market around, not also the market within. Cell Towers- Cell tower prospects, negotiate lowest dollar possible, because of volume, and know exactly what it costs. Cell Towers- are taller allowing for more channel re-use through verticle speration. What Cell Towers care about the most is to do leases that do not restrict them from larger opportunities with larger prospects, and does not piss off their larger customers. If you can submit a plan, that shows renting to you is just extra income, without risk to their existing contracts and prospects, you might be able to get them to jump. The best way to do it is to argue the trutgh, which is that unlicensed spectrum is slop spectrum, the big boys don't want it, and it would never work for their business models. The community service value of supporting local companies is far greater than the risk of renting to you. What we are learning is.... Can we trust any tower leasor? Financially, will we be able to enforce a contract? Can we risk being help hostage by renting jsut one tower? Do we really need that tower that we thought was so valuable? Thos questions ahve to be answered. We believe the best answer is to not rely on just one. The best way to do that is to get the right price so you can afford to have more. If you don;t get the price, its usually not worth the risk. Send them a copy of the front page of one of your agreements with their competitors. It amazing how quickly they take you seriously when their pride relizes you are good enough for their competition. At minimum it sparks their interest, to at least take your phone call, and listen to your pitch to consider it. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "JohnnyO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> 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" <[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/
