Cell Tower News

Outages in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama potentially caused by AT&T backhaul network All four major U.S. wireless carriers – Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile US – experienced …

 Auto accident claims climber lives, memorial fund set up Five tower climbers from Wingate Communications were driving in a pickup truck in Brooksville, Fla., this week when a box truck ran …

Crown Castle, American Tower, SBAC report Q2 earnings It’s that time of year when the tower industry’s largest companies report their earnings for the second quarter of 2015. First up is Crown Castle. The …

SBA Communications recently surprised some investors with news that it will sell its stake in ExteNet Systems, and today the company shed some light on the decision during its second-quarter …

American Tower said today that it already has more than 900 lease applications in the pipeline for the tower portfolio it recently acquired from Verizon. The nation’s largest wireless carrier …

Learn more about NWSA’s mission and benchmarking efforts in the industry The National Wireless Safety Alliance has launched an official website. The organization officially launched in February of this year, the …

The four markets represent 10% to 12% of Bharti Airtel’s subscribers in Africa Orange and Bharti Airtel have entered into an exclusive agreement to explore the possible acquisition by Orange …

Summer of tower theft continues The months-long streak of cell tower battery thefts continued in both Illinois and Ohio this week. A few weeks ago in the Frankfort Township, Ill., …

Fiber expansion to add 350 route miles to the network Continuing to expand its fiber footprint, Colorado-based Zayo Group Holdings plans to hook up some 500 Seattle-area towers to fiber …

According to a recent report by media and communications analyst firm, SNL Kagan, active tower sites declined for the first time ever in 2014. The report points to carrier consolidation as …

Centerline at odds with tower tech injury report Earlier this week it was reported that a Massachusetts tower climber working in Gorham, Maine, fell from a 300-foot guyed tower owned by …

The company aims to sell additional towers in six African markets in the coming months Indian telecommunications group Bharti Airtel has obtained nearly $1.3 billion from the sale of its …

Towers will not keep New Yorkers connected Big cities have the greatest need for cellular capacity, but they can also have the densest neighborhoods and the highest real estate prices. …

Using drones takes out the risk associated with human inspection of cell phone towers Carrier T-Mobile Netherlands will use Aerialtronics unmanned aerial systems, more commonly known as drones, to inspect …

Update: This story has been updated to include the name of the previously unidentified man in this accident. Pilot killed when homemade airplane struck cell tower Tragedy struck in Corona, …

Texas death could result in lawsuit Earlier this year it was reported that Stephanie Gurney fell to her death from a cell tower in San Angelo, Texas, but at the time details …

3M is investing big money in the future of the climber safety industry with a $2.5 billion agreement to acquire fall-protection equipment maker Capital Safety from global investment firm KKR. …

Cell tower gets cut down, hits power lines, leaves thousands without AC during summer in the desert Law enforcement is claiming sabotage in the June 20 felling of a wooden, …

Virginia tower catches fire A cellphone tower behind a high school in Newport News, Va., caught fire this week. Maintenance workers were doing some welding work on the tower when they …

Speaker calls for tower climbers to unite against corporate leadership A threatening video is circulating in tower climber groups on Facebook claiming to be from infamous hacker group, Anonymous, which …

Lawsuits over 2014 tower collapse continue Two weeks ago RCR Wireless News reported that a lawsuit had been filed by the family of a firefighter who died in an attempted rescue …

The National Association of Tower Erectors has submitted comments to OSHA about communication tower safety. OSHA made a formal request for information from NATE to get its hands on information that …

Verizon towers to function as air traffic control NASA has reached out to the nation’s largest wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless, entering an agreement to conduct drone tracking research using the …

Officials order tower service restored Indian officials aren’t backing down after the recent terror attacks on their mobile infrastructure. High-level Indian officials have ordered the Indian Army and CRPF, along …

Terrorists are trying to put a stop to mobile networks in India, and they are using deadly force to do it. Two civilian tower workers were killed and three more …