Cell Phone Tower

Back in the late eighties, the cell phone industry was in it is infancy. Cell phone companies like Airtouch, Primeco, AT&T, and the Baby Bells (Bell South, Pac Bell, Bell Atlantic) were all just commencing to deploy cell phone towers in the cities where they were licensed to provide service. In those days, each cell phone company would only lease land for their own cell towers. Nobody had heard of sharing each other’s towers normally called collocation. Each wireless carrier would build their own tower for provision of cellular service. Since there were only two licensed analog cellular suppliers in any market and not that galore clients using the systems, there weren’t that some towers required.

Because there were not that a good deal of towers, there were not a great deal of zoning regulatings regarding towers and they could be built nearly anywhere. However, in a few years, the municipalities started fighting back. Some municipalities decisive that they would plainly oppose any cell phone tower. Others tried to manage their growth by advancing collocation. In 1996, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 changed all this. Not only did it provide for the auctioning of new spectrum (now called Personal Communication Systems or PCS) to six new licensees in any given area, but it also regulated how local municipalities could regulate cell tower placement.

The net result was collocation. Many of the cell phone towers that had been built prior to the enactment of stricter zoning laws now were efficaciously their own monopolies. New zoning regulatings encouraged or even required that a wireless carrier demonstrate that there were no existent towers that met their radio frequency needs. If they could not demonstrate such, they were required to collocate on the existent cell phone tower. So the tower owner now was receiving revenue from another company for use of the tower, on occasion in excess of $2000/mo. Yet the landowner was still receiving the same $500/mo that he had in the first place negotiated. This chance was made worse as further and added cell phone carriers collocated on the tower, each paying further and added revenue.

However, numerous of those initial leases are now coming to the end of their lease term. Landowners now have the probability to negotiate new tower leases with the firstborn company. In a lot of cases, the tower has changed hands a few times. An example of this is when Crown Castle purchased the rights to the Bell Atlantic (currently Verizon) tower portfolio of over 1400 towers or the Bell South portfolio of 2000 towers. Spectrasite (now American Tower Corporation) purchased 2000 towers from Nextel. Many of the ground leases for these towers were in the first place signed in the late 1980′s or early 1990′s. Some of them had terms as little as 10 years and the ground owners are now being neared to sign new extensions to the leases.

It is rare however, that the offers being made by the tower companies are in truth fair. Many times they offer to extend the initial lease at the same rate for another 50 years. The tower company may offer a great deal of enticement like a signing bonus of $25,000 or such to get the landowner to sign. Ask yourself why would they do this. The answer is rather simple- they suppose that the intermediate landowner is too ignorant to recognise what the tower lease is genuinely worth.

There are a number of constituents which influence the value of a cell phone tower lease which is set to expire:

1. Zoning Regulations: Could the tower be built someplace else or at the same height?

2. Number of tenants: The number of tenants determines the amount of revenue on the tower. The more tenants, the more outstanding the revenue and the dandier the value to the tower company.

3. Location: Is the tower in an urban area serving a to a considerable degree trafficked highway? Or is it in a rural area with few customers? The more urban, the more revenue.

4. Availability of suitable alternatives: Are there other suitable places to build a alternate tower nearby? The less locations, the better for the landowner.

Before you agree to a new cell phone tower lease agreement, do your homework. Find out what it would take to replace the tower. Find out if the local zoning regulatings would grant them to do so. Estimate that amount of revenue that the tower is bringing in. And don’t receive their offer until you know. Time is on the landowner’s side. Use it to your full vantage to negotiate the best cell phone tower lease you can.

Satisfy all your cellular phone needs with the Wireless Extenders YX545 zBoost zP Wireless Booster, which works with both cellular frequencies (800 and 1900 MHz) and may extend cellular coverage up to 3000 square feet. This unit may handle signals from all the major cellular carriers.* The package includes everything you need: amplifier base Mini-RG59 cable, signal antenna and mounting hardware. The omni-directional signal antenna receives signals from multiple cell towers.

*The use of radio distribution instrumentation that enhances, extends or amplifies a wireless signal may be prohibited without the consent of the wireless carrier upon whose network such instrumentation will be used. You must consult with your carrier before purchasing such instrumentation to use with that carrier’s service.

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Using a revolutionary, patent pending technology that protects the carrier network, the YX545 improves indoor cell phone coverage by capturing and repeating the outside signal, bringing it into the building and heightening it. This procedure gives rise to a “Cell Zone” in your home or office.

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The Wireless Extenders zBoost scheme includes:

• Outdoor antenna (repeats the signal) may be installed outdoors above the roofline or indoors in the attic or near a window
• Coax cable (Mini-RG59) connects from the outdoor antenna to the base unit
• Base unit: Sleekly designed, it amplifies the signal and provides oscillation detection/correction which protects the carrier network using patent-pending technology.
• Indoor antenna connects to the base unit to repeat the signal and manufacture “Cell Zone”–no physical connection to the phone is needed.

Installation
Choosing the best emplacement for installation of the Signal Antenna provides the best performance and the greatest area of bettered signal. Determine the emplacement that provides the firmest signal using the signal strength indicator on your cell phone. For the best reception, find the emplacement that provides the most bars of signal strength and locate the Signal Antenna at that location.

Specifications

PCS Band

• Frequency: Uplink: 1850 to 1910 MHz | Downlink: 1930 to 1990 MHz
• System Gain: 60dB
• PCS band supported: A, D, B, E, F, C
• Networks: CDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, EVDO, 1xRTT, UMTS, HSPA, 3G

Cellular Band

• Frequency: Uplink: 824 to 849 MHz | Downlink: 869 to 894 MHz
• System Gain: 60dB
• PCS band supported: A, B, A’, B’
• Networks: CDMA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, EVDO, 1xRTT, UMTS, HSPA, 3G

General

• Coverage (open areas): Up to 3,000 square feet
• Dimensions: 5 x 7 x 1.25 inches
• Weight: 9 ounces
• Power consumption: 3W standby; 7W max signal; 2.0A Max