Modern mounting systems for digital infrastructure equipment go beyond basic frames—they're adaptable, configurable, and designed to secure active gear while providing organized pathways for power and signal cables. Calvin Waskey, with the National Sales team at Allfasteners , discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, some unique aspects of the company’s mounting systems and where these products are in demand. Support the show...
Aug 11, 2025•14 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor, recently chatted with Arpan Sura, Senior Counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Chief AI Officer, on their Wireless Water Cooler podcast. In this lively talk, Sura discusses a variety of issues including the Commission’s Build America agenda focused on unleashing high-speed infrastructure builds, restoring America’s leadership in wireless, and strengthening America’s tower and telecom workforce. Sura ...
Jul 28, 2025•29 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Large organizations deal with a lot of data and information that is often in silos and not shared among internal groups. Digital infrastructure projects, for example, involve site acquisition and permitting, engineering, construction and ongoing operations and maintenance. Infrastructure businesses save time and money when all groups in the company can access data across the entire process. Paul Alder, Vice President-Delivery at OneVizion speaks with Inside Towers Business Editor, John Celentano...
Jul 21, 2025•17 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Demand for fiber connectivity is at an all-time high. Both dark and lit fiber are in demand for connections to towers, enterprises, and data centers, and for middle-mile routes connecting fiber-to-the-home deployments. Fiber strand counts and optical transmission speeds are increasing dramatically. And the mix of national, regional and smaller fiber operators is constantly churning. Tyler Coates, Chief Revenue Officer at FiberLight talks with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about t...
Jul 14, 2025•27 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Wireless, fiber, and data center markets are projected to grow in 2025 and in subsequent years. Nonetheless, these markets are encountering challenges due to the prevailing macroeconomic conditions. These factors collectively influence the telecom supply chain in both beneficial and adverse manners. Gus Vasilakis, VP of Canada Sales & Global Business Development at Power & Tel , discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, how suppliers and distributors are managing in t...
Jun 10, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Building and managing digital infrastructure —whether it’s towers, fiber networks, or data centers—is a multifaceted challenge, requiring precise coordination across design, construction, and ongoing operations. Brant Carter, VP-Product at Sitetracker , discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, overarching industry trends and how the company’s 'Full Asset Lifecycle Management' platform meets the moment. Brant dives into the industry's shift toward data-driven decision-making ...
May 19, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Digital twins have become a powerful tool for TowerCos - helping to uncover hidden revenue, reduce costs, and improve decision-making. But misconceptions about site data and operations are still costing TowerCos millions, according to vHive . In this episode, vHive’s CRO Itai Karelic joins Inside Towers' John Celentano to break down five costly myths to reveal how digital twins can unlock untapped value. From unbilled equipment to costly rework, learn how TowerCos are turning hidden risks into r...
Mar 24, 2025•35 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Although designed to last a long time, towers undergo continual loading changes as mobile network operators and wireless service providers add, upgrade or replace their transmission equipment. And towers must withstand constant changes in the weather. Mike Seymour, President and Bryan Lanier, Vice President-Operations at Congruex Wireless Solutions talk with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about structural engineering considerations for towers, along with new processes and solution...
Mar 17, 2025•23 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Human trafficking involves the exploitation of men, women and children, for some sort of control or monetary gain. The Telecommunications Against Trafficking and Exploitation, or T.A.T.E., initiative offers guidelines for the many men and women who work in telecom to help prevent such exploitations by knowing what to look for and how to respond. Ashlie Bryant, co-founder and CEO, and Josh Loaiza, business development manager of 3 Strands Global Foundation, and Jim Tracy, CEO of Legacy Enterprise...
Feb 25, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Tower companies report an increase in colocation requests from MNOs and other wireless operators, more than for lease amendments on existing sites. Onboarding second or third tenants involves different considerations than hosting the anchor tenant. Harmoni Towers' CCO Chas Peterson and SVP of Business Development Aaron Bloom discuss these key colocation considerations with Inside Towers Business Editor John Celentano. Support the show...
Feb 17, 2025•22 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor recently chatted with Jim Stritzinger, the Director of the South Carolina Broadband Office on the Wireless Water Cooler podcast. In this lively and candid half-hour talk, the focus is on innovative ways the public and private sectors can partner to ensure the federal funding from NTIA’s Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program is optimized for states and their residents to bridge the digita...
Nov 04, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 32
Tower climbers work in all kinds of weather that affect their health and safety, especially in hot and humid conditions. Industry and government agencies are making a concerted effort to establish appropriate Heat Injury and Illness Prevention safety standards and practices in construction industries but some of these may be difficult to adhere to as written for our tower climbers. Bryant Bertrand, CEO of Ronin Revolution , and Kathy Stieler, Director of Safety, Health & Compliance at NATE -...
Oct 28, 2024•25 min•Season 5Ep. 31
We often hear about municipalities or individuals pushing back on new cell tower developments in their communities over location or aesthetics. A recent case involved two competing tower companies that went to court over a siting dispute with an interesting outcome. Rod Carter, Partner, Jake Remington, Senior Counsel, and Joe Diedrich, Senior Associate, all with Husch Blackwell’s Telecom Law Practice, offer a briefing on the case and what transpired in conversation with John Celentano, Inside To...
Sep 23, 2024•20 min•Season 5Ep. 30
In the U.S., large public tower companies hold a substantial portion of the communications towers in operation. The remainder are owned and managed by numerous smaller private companies that support a range of mobile network operators and other wireless service providers. Private tower companies often can be more agile and offer custom services to their customers. But there are challenges. Yannis Macheras, CEO of Harmoni Towers discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, some o...
Aug 26, 2024•22 min•Season 5Ep. 29
The digital infrastructure business continues to be dynamic and challenging. Bernard Borghei, tower company veteran and CEO of Symphony Wireless, shares his perspectives and outlook on the wireless market and overall digital infrastructure ecosystem with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor. Support the show
Aug 12, 2024•23 min•Season 5Ep. 28
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of August 5, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
Aug 12, 2024•32 min•Season 5Ep. 27
Fiber optic systems are used everywhere to provide high speed connections to buildings, towers, and data centers. Increasing demand for high-speed data, streaming video and burgeoning AI-enabled services is driving construction and expansion of fiber routes to provide more connectivity. At the same time, the market has become a mix of large and small fiber operators, all competing for a piece of the business. Tyler Coates, Chief Revenue Officer at FiberLight discusses with John Celentano, Inside...
Aug 05, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 26
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of July 22, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
Jul 30, 2024•31 min•Season 5Ep. 25
Steel structural elements are designed to support the weight and wind loading that macrocell antennas and radio units create on a tower. More important, structural elements must be designed and installed to minimize passive intermodulation interference, or PIM, that is generated from transmitted and received RF signals reflecting off of these elements. CommScope’s Chuck Mann, Senior Director, Engineering R&D and Jared Haines, Director of Product Line Management-Structures, talk to John Celen...
Jul 29, 2024•18 min•Season 5Ep. 24
iconectiv TruOps Common Language® is a distributed data registry that increases corporate revenues by streamlining network planning, service activation and technology rollouts via industry standard location and equipment identification codes. Using Common Language codes streamlines communication and management across the data network and telecom interconnection ecosystem and enables critical information exchange via operations support systems and other interface mechanisms. The platform is parti...
Jul 22, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 23
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of July 15, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
Jul 16, 2024•11 min•Season 5Ep. 22
Planning and building digital infrastructure is hard and requires technical and project management capabilities and skills that few organizations can offer at scale. Fullerton is an established engineering and construction management firm that handles projects for tower companies and communications service providers to deploy wireless or fiber networks, outdoors and inside buildings. The company takes a project from the architectural and engineering phase through coordinating and managing the fl...
Jul 08, 2024•18 min•Season 5Ep. 21
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of June 10, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
Jun 17, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 20
Satellite-based services for decades have provided a variety of applications across commercial, industrial and government markets. Different satellite systems – GEO, MEO, LEO - serve different purposes. Recent discussions on direct satellite to cell phone connections or broadband internet connectivity address just a part of the broader satellite-based communications business. Greg Quiggle, Senior Vice President at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions shares with John Celentano, Inside Towers Bu...
Jun 03, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 19
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of May 28, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
Jun 03, 2024•13 min•Season 5Ep. 18
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of May 13, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
May 20, 2024•12 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Telecom equipment distributors play a pivotal role in supplying all the infrastructure elements that make broadband and mobile networks work. Distributors stock their warehouses with thousands of products from hundreds of manufacturers and deliver orders for these products from network operators and their contractors to wherever the equipment is needed in the field. Melissa Seibring, Director of Marketing and Gus Vasilakis, VP-Global Business Development and VP-Canadian Operations at Power &...
May 13, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 16
There is more and more fiber being deployed in the middle mile and deeper into the network to interconnect data centers and enterprises, provide wireless carriers with cell site backhaul, and enable telco and ISP deployments. Clearfield, a fiber management and connectivity provider, designs and builds the products needed to power active equipment at the edge and manage and deploy the fiber cables all the way to the premises. Clearfield bills itself as ‘the fiber to anywhere company.’ Kevin Morga...
May 06, 2024•25 min•Season 5Ep. 15
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 29, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
May 06, 2024•23 min•Season 5Ep. 14
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 15-19, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
Apr 22, 2024•14 min•Season 5Ep. 13
