Crown Castle

[Louis Mamakos]

Crown Castle is one of two large companies that own commercial tower real estate
(the other being, I think, American Tower).  Their customers are all the various
mobile operators and probably others as well.  It wouldn't be surprising that
Lightsquared might be a customer of theirs, though I suppose it could be AT&T,
Sprint, Verizon Wireless or some other operator, too.

Their business is to acquire and maintain multi-tenant facilities, in most
cases, to make the economics work for everyone (e.g., taking power, backhaul,
etc. to the site).

louie
wa3ymh


On Apr 27, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Karl W4KRL wrote:

> "Crown Castle owns, operates, and leases towers and other infrastructure for
> wireless communications. Crown Castle offers significant wireless
> communications coverage to 92 of the top 100 U.S. markets and to
> substantially all of the Australian population. Crown Castle owns, operates,
> and manages over 22,000 and approximately 1,600 wireless communication sites
> in the U.S. and Australia, respectively. For more information on Crown
> Castle, please visit www.crowncastle.com."
> 
> Frank, make sure they put the antenna on the US end of that pole instead of
> the Australian end.
> 
> Karl W4KRL
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fgentges at mindspring.com [mailto:fgentges at mindspring.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:34 PM
> To: Tacos
> Subject: Crown Castle
> 
> A telephone pole just outside our neighborhood now has a sign posted on it.
> 
> The sign says it is a "Future Antenna Pole" and any questions to 
> "contact your joint pole administrator".  No phone number or web site is 
> listed.
> 
> I found www.crowncastle.com is part of whatever is going on with this 
> pole.  The web site talks about wireless infrastructure, 23000 towers 
> and how the company is a good place to invest.  It talks about 
> distributed antenna systems.  Fancy artwork and very little detail on 
> what they are up to.
> 
> What should I expect to see or get in wireless?  Should I be happy, sad 
> or indifferent?
> 
> Frank K0BRA
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