nolanstower
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I just purchased a guide wire radio tower- currently there is a non paying sprint contract as well as a local radio station on it. How do I go about adding customers to come on to tower?
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purchased a radio tower- how do i add customers to join or connect to tower
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First off, as the new owner of the tower, you should know that it's guyed, not guide...as in guy wire, not guide wire.
As for attracting paying customers, frankly if the tower site has existed for quite some time (which is likely if there is Sprint equipment there), it may not be that much of a desirable location if no other carriers or businesses already have a presence there.
There is quite a lot involved in owning and maintaining a radio tower/site, so good luck to you.
As for attracting paying customers, frankly if the tower site has existed for quite some time (which is likely if there is Sprint equipment there), it may not be that much of a desirable location if no other carriers or businesses already have a presence there.
There is quite a lot involved in owning and maintaining a radio tower/site, so good luck to you.
mmckenna
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Why is Sprint not paying? I'd recommend fixing that. Usually cell carriers are pretty good income.
There are tower brokers that you might want to talk to.
Example, not recommending: Cell Tower Broker & Cell Tower Lease Broker
They'll do the hard work for you. But generally, if the people are not coming to you, that means they don't need access to the site. If the tower is on the FCC ASR, they'd be able to find you. If it's not, that might make it difficult. Make sure you have a name/number contact on the gate.
paulears
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Every tower in my area of the UK is losing antennas, not gaining them.
What benefit would a person have to wish to use your facility? What i mean is if you look at individuals, small, medium and large businesses, what improvement in their comms would your tower offer? I dont have a tower but my home is on a hill, and i have a business repeater on it. Ten years ago, three businesses used it, and with no real outgoings, bar licence, it made me money. A farmer, a taxi firm and a driving school. Driving school and farmer moved to phones, and the taxi firm moved to and IP over cellular system. My service area is covered by decent cell, as your is, so what advantage over sprint do you have to offer. Customers who want radio like coverage can use the IP system through any phone system with a data card. Does the income from your two customers even meet the running costs? I fear you have bought a big problem.
What benefit would a person have to wish to use your facility? What i mean is if you look at individuals, small, medium and large businesses, what improvement in their comms would your tower offer? I dont have a tower but my home is on a hill, and i have a business repeater on it. Ten years ago, three businesses used it, and with no real outgoings, bar licence, it made me money. A farmer, a taxi firm and a driving school. Driving school and farmer moved to phones, and the taxi firm moved to and IP over cellular system. My service area is covered by decent cell, as your is, so what advantage over sprint do you have to offer. Customers who want radio like coverage can use the IP system through any phone system with a data card. Does the income from your two customers even meet the running costs? I fear you have bought a big problem.
In addition to maintenance, inland marine insurance for the tower is a less than fun ongoing expense as well.
lenk911
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AM (Hot tower) or FM station?
Also, you probably should have a structural engineering survey done. You may or may not have any excess capacity to rent!
MTS2000des
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Sprint hasn't existed since 2019, and was acquired by T-Mobile. Second, review leases. If none exists, evict them. Why does this smell troll? Is it just me?
mrsvensven
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After the T-Mobile acquisition, Sprint sites and T-Mobile sites coexisted for a while, but within the last 18 months Sprint has abandoned and/or removed all their sites in my area.
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
Correct. T-Mo shut down Sprint in 2020-2021. Customers had to get new SIM/ESIMs and even devices that couldn't be unlocked but the legacy Sprint network is gone. I know of three of my sites, they came and got the old Sprint stuff, decommissioned one of the three as it wasn't needed. My point was the company has been gone for almost 5 years so if someone claims their equipment is still up, it is abandoned in place.
paulears
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When you first join a forum and ask a question - you have had to sign up, fill the details in and then post your question. Then, when I do this, I keep popping back hoping to get the answer that all that effort generated? In this case, he's never been back? I wonder why somebody would ask a specific question and not bother to check back? Weird!
mastr
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Either that or some former site owner is saying "I'm glad to be rid of that thing".
Really? Its not even 24 hours since he posted. People could have other stuff going on in life and don't sit here all day waiting for a response. Give the guy a chance.
paulears
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When you need an answer, you check back. Some forums have amazingly high traffic others dont. Length of time before checkback vs importance of question. A direct link.
lenk911
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While we are waiting for the original poster to return (snoooooz), Have you noticed there are a lot of surplus towers out there. Just drive along our freeways and notice the number of towers that never had a system installed. Also as the carriers march into ever high and higher G systems, the antennas come down on the towers. I hear in LA the antennas are at light pole level and the original towers are emptying. Tower sites might be available at bargain basement prices.
BUT: Many of these nice towers are in the wrong place for repurposing. The number of land mobile licenses has fallen off since COVID. Who will your customer(s) be? If you have the skills and tools to remove the towers, resell them and reinstall them elsewhere; there might be a potential business. BUT also, many cities and towns hate towers so reinstalling them there might be a problem.
Maybe you can see a business opportunity but I don't. Too bad, it once was a nice butter and egg business.
BUT: Many of these nice towers are in the wrong place for repurposing. The number of land mobile licenses has fallen off since COVID. Who will your customer(s) be? If you have the skills and tools to remove the towers, resell them and reinstall them elsewhere; there might be a potential business. BUT also, many cities and towns hate towers so reinstalling them there might be a problem.
Maybe you can see a business opportunity but I don't. Too bad, it once was a nice butter and egg business.
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
Small cells are the rage here in suburbs. So much so, the telecom cartel lobbied our state to get rid of gubment red tape and fast track approving them, limit the amount of leases a gov can charge a cartel, and pandering to their needs. Meanwhile, in rural and ex-urban areas, cellular service is barely enough to cover streets. But yes, the days of "big towers" for cellular are long over. mm wave bands are designed for close quarters base radios on light poles and rooftops, not big sticks.
Yup. We sold our Towers in 2017, and really think it was perfect timing, all things considered. Although, the new owner has added a Customer or two on all of them and only lost I think 2 total of what we had.
He has far more connections than we did.
He has far more connections than we did.
mmckenna
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AT&T is telling me they want off one of our towers. Just no need for the high steel anymore in our area.
Back in the early 2000's when I worked for a large ESMR we paid farmers $750 a month to lease about 1,500 square feet for a self-supporter/shelter and in most cases gave them a nice new gravel road they could use to access their land. Those days are long gone.
