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Home - Tower Technology Weekly Wrap-Up: Crown Castle, AT&T strike deal; TE Connectivity’s big DAS deals; Cellphone-Mate boosters in hotels
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Tower Technology Weekly Wrap-Up: Crown Castle, AT&T strike deal; TE Connectivity’s big DAS deals; Cellphone-Mate boosters in hotels

by Jarad Matula October 18, 2013
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With the ever-increasing demand for tower climbers and the increased number of recent tower deals, RCR Wireless News thought the time was nigh to introduce a weekly Tower Technology weekly wrap-up. Each week we will gather all the top stories in the world of towers and tower-related technology.

  • Crown Castle and AT&T closed a deal on a sale of towers, for $4.85B.
    • Inside Towers has a great analysis on why it makes sense for AT&T to sell its towers.
    • Our own editor-in-chief Dan Meyer had a great “Worst of the Week” related to this story.
  • At PCIA 2013 it was announced that CTO Towers secured $30 million in financing and closed on the purchase of five towers
  • All of this moving and shaking has tower execs bullish on the industry’s growth.
  • TE Connectivity revealed several big-league DAS deals.
  • NexxCom Wireless now provides wireless communications link for the London Stock Exchange.
  • Leading hotels are now installing Cellphone-Mate’s signal boosters.
  • The Light Brigade, a provider of fiber optic training, has dropped the “the” and relaunched the brand.
  • Clearfield, a fiber network specialist, ranks No. 14 in Forbes’ annual ranking of the “best small companies in America.”
  • Huawei’s small-cell backhaul demos in EANTC tests
  • Agilent Technologies released an application note to help you brush up on spectrum analysis fundamentals.
  • AT&T has nationally approved Sunsight’s Antenna Alignment Tool and updated their alignment requirements.
  • Why not have the best of both worlds? Verizon Wireless proposes a tower in a small Montana town that will be both baseball stadium lighting and a cell tower.
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