Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor recently chatted with U.S. Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) on the Wireless Water Cooler podcast. The five-term Congressman is Chair of the Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee and was formerly Vice Chair of the Communications & Technology subcommittee. In this lively and candid half hour talk, Rep. Carter discusses a variety of issues including how BEAD money will connect ...
Apr 17, 2024•24 min•Season 5Ep. 12
The tower business is alive and well, despite the slower pace of network builds among the U.S. mobile network operators. While the public tower companies are guiding to low single-digit growth in 2024, there is movement among the smaller, private tower companies. Private tower deals tend to be small, from a few towers to a few hundred towers at a time. Still, tower acquisitions are taking place, both domestically and internationally. In the process, a few mid-size tower companies are growing the...
Apr 09, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 11
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Apr 08, 2024•12 min•Season 5Ep. 10
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Mar 12, 2024•19 min•Season 5Ep. 9
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Mar 04, 2024•18 min•Season 5Ep. 8
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Feb 26, 2024•13 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Jim Tracy has worked in the wireless infrastructure business for many years, from climbing towers to running his own tower contracting business, to serving as Board Chairman of NATE and now as President of the Tower Family Foundation (TFF). In conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, Tracy shares insights gained from his long experience in the tower contracting business, his unwavering advocacy for better and safer tower climbing work practices, and the outstanding charit...
Feb 26, 2024•18 min•Season 5Ep. 6
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Feb 05, 2024•8 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Tower climbing is inherently hazardous and dangerous. More than that, tower technicians must be knowledgeable and skilled at constructing towers, and installing and testing RF, fiber, and related power systems. The tower industry has always been concerned that more training and certification is needed to ensure tower technicians can work safely at heights while building high-quality networks. Telecommunications Industry Foundation (TIF) is addressing a number of issues arising from the rapid adv...
Feb 05, 2024•23 min•Season 5Ep. 4
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Jan 29, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 3
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Jan 22, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 2
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Jan 15, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 1
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Dec 11, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 49
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Dec 04, 2023•27 min•Season 4Ep. 48
The digital infrastructure ecosystem including towers, fiber, data centers and small cells all operate under a similar ‘shared infrastructure’ business model. But deploying these assets, particularly data centers, comes with very different land use requirements compared to erecting towers. Jake Remington, Senior Counsel, and Sandy Gomez, Partner, both with the law firm, Husch Blackwell , discuss with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, the intricacies and requisite planning considerat...
Nov 14, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 47
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Nov 13, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 46
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Nov 06, 2023•35 min•Season 4Ep. 45
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Oct 31, 2023•15 min•Season 4Ep. 44
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor recently chatted with Alex Gellman, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Vertical Bridge on the Wireless Water Cooler podcast. In this lively and candid half hour talk, Gellman discussed a variety of issues including recent slowdowns in MNO activity and how Vertical Bridge is responding. He shared how the company is handling new macro tower builds and M&A strategy. In his first interview since being ...
Oct 25, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 43
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Oct 23, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 42
With the slowdown in tower construction and RAN installation work, the challenge for infrastructure operators and their contractors is how to reallocate those skills and human resources to other new activity on the ground, particularly, fiber and increasingly, EV charging station projects. Learning Alliance offers a range training and certification programs that help field technicians expand their qualifications and skills to work in multidisciplinary environments. Cesar Ruiz, CEO of Learning Al...
Oct 18, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 41
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Oct 16, 2023•11 min•Season 4Ep. 40
With continuing demand for broadband and mobile data connectivity, and the specter of artificial intelligence having a big upside impact, there are opportunities for infrastructure companies that are focused on a vertical market like towers, or a portfolio of assets that includes fiber, small cells, and data centers. At the same time, there are challenges to acquiring and owning and operating infrastructure assets. StratCap Wireless is a company that is steadily building its digital infrastructu...
Oct 11, 2023•18 min•Season 4Ep. 39
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Oct 09, 2023•21 min•Season 4Ep. 38
In August, Spartaco Group announced that it acquired Ronin Revolution , the designer and manufacturer of battery-powered ascenders. Nick Skrobot, CEO of Spartaco and Bryant Bertrand, CEO of Ronin join John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, to discuss the acquisition, where Ronin and its battery-powered ascenders fit in Spartaco’s lineup of professional tool manufacturers, and what the deal may mean for both companies going forward. Support the show...
Oct 04, 2023•23 min•Season 4Ep. 37
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Oct 02, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 36
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Sep 25, 2023•12 min•Season 4Ep. 35
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Sep 18, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 34
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Sep 11, 2023•24 min•Season 4Ep. 33
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Aug 22, 2023•22 min•Season 4Ep. 32
