Despite massive consolidation among players in the tower industry, many small tower owners said they are not interested in selling their sites, according to a survey conducted by Fryer's Information Services.About half of the survey respondents indicated they would not consider selling, and the...
If the recent consolidation activity among independent tower companies is any indication, size is perceived to be an important element to a tower company in attracting deals with wireless carriers.The rapid consolidation of the industry was jolted into high gear in November when American...
TAMPA, Fla.-UniSite Inc. plans to acquire 66 telecommunications towers in 12 states in two separate transactions. Financial details of the arrangements were not disclosed.The company is buying 27 towers in Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri from Charles W. McCullough, Jo-Carroll McCullough and Stateline Communications Inc....
PEORIA, Ill.-Rohn Industries Inc., which makes tubular towers and equipment enclosures, announced it is merging with Pirod Holdings Inc., a specialized telecommunications equipment manufacturer.Under terms of the agreement, Pirod will be merged into Rohn. Up to 52.5 percent of the outstanding Rohn shares will...
While many independent tower companies grapple with the issue of whether to offer construction services as part of a one-stop shop, one company believes it can succeed purely in the tower construction arena.Formed by a 1994 merger between Burnup & Sims and Church &...
WASHINGTON-As Congress returns this week to begin the 106th Congress, members of the House Commerce Committee were given a preview of coming attractions in December by their chairman, Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.). Two of those priorities are of particular interest to the wireless industry....
NEW YORK-Taking the pulse of the domestic cellular and personal communications services sectors as 1998 drew to a close, securities analysts from three major investment banks offered a positive prognosis for 1999 and beyond.When the full-year count is completed, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Corp....
At the end of each year, the RCR editorial staff looks back on the news events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 1998.1. March 16IPR issues spark...
DENVER-SpectraSite Communications Inc., a provider of site and tower development services, said it acquired certain tower assets of Airadigm Communications Inc., a provider of personal communications services. Under the terms of the deal, SpectraSite will lease back tower space to Airadigm and build new...
HOUSTON, BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Mobile and Crown Castle International Corp. announced an agreement to form a joint venture company that will own, operate and actively advance the leasing space on BAM's existing network of wireless towers throughout the country.Additionally, the joint venture company will...
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. and Triton PCS announced they entered into a contract in which American Tower will build 115 build-to-suit tower-development sites in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.In addition, Triton PCS has contracted American Tower's acquisition and zoning service for 175 sites in...
WASHINGTON-A Government Accounting Office report says the U.S. Postal Service has "put on hold" plans to expand an antenna-siting program, which could have significant impacts on efforts to get antenna-siting and enhanced 911 legislation passed next year.UniSite Inc., an independent tower company partnered with...
WASHINGTON-People flying New Year's Eve 1999 should wonder if their airplanes will be able to navigate safely if the pilots cannot see wireless antenna facilities-especially 200-foot towers.If the millennium bug strikes the electric power grid, the lighting on antenna towers is likely to fail.If...
WASHINGTON-Marcia Spielholz, the California woman whose emergency 911 cellular phone call went unanswered in 1994 during an attempted auto theft in which she was shot in the face, plans to amend her class-action lawsuit against Los Angeles Telephone Co. next week by adding new...
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. has purchased Bracket Master Inc. for approximately $1.5 million.Bracket Master Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of tower hardware based in Jupiter, Fla., formed in 1994 to meet the growing demand for antenna-mounting hardware. American Tower owns and manages more than 3,000...
ADC Telecommunications Inc. completed its acquisition of Teledata Communications Ltd. for $15.75 per share, or about $200 million in cash.Omnipoint Communications Inc. launched commercial roaming with NPI Wireless of Traverse City, Mich. NPI operates Global System for Mobile communications services in the northern Michigan...
DAPHNE, Ala.-Communitronics of America Inc. announced it received Federal Communications Commission approval to provide paging services at 152.630 MHz in Mobile, Ala.The licensed coverage area covers up to 16 million pops. Communitronics is building a new tower and transmitting station to begin offering service...
VIENNA, Va.-Commsite International Inc. announced the expansion of its tower-acquisition program.Commsite's tower-acquisition program has shown robust growth by offering a program tailored for quick response, closing and liquidity for "mom and pop" tower owners, said the company. According to Timothy P. Haley, president and...
American Tower Corp. last week bolstered its leading position among independent tower companies when it announced plans to acquire TeleCom Towers L.L.C. and OmniAmerica Inc., the latter considered a major player in the tower industry.When completed, the mergers will add about 1,036 towers to...
WASHINGTON-While this week's election of Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) to speaker of the House is not expected to dramatically change the course of telecom policy making in Congress, a wholesale shakeup in GOP leadership could alter the political dynamics of that process."We...
Collocation has evolved from something wireless carriers used to resist to something they do as a matter of course. The idea of collocation increasingly becomes important to independent tower companies, which rely heavily on collocation to bring in the revenues they need to sustain...
Alltel Corp. said it acquired Armstrong Cellular Inc.'s 15-percent interest in a network the two companies operate in Charleston, W.Va. Alltel now has 100 percent control of the operation. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The company also said last month it launched...
The MapFactory, a Walnut Creek, Calif., company specializing in adding value to imaging and mapping products, has developed a product that could impact the way wireless carriers build out their networks.The company brings together vast amounts of information such as the heights of buildings...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-ANI Site Development announced it signed a new agreement to manage all of Renda Broadcasting Corp.'s broadcast towers.ANI manages more than 200 communications sites in the Southeast. Renda has towers in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Florida and Georgia.
