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 -The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association speak with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about a proposed OSHA standard for heat injury and illness protection, and how it applies to tower climbers.Support the show

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 Towers Business Editor.Support the show

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 of the opportunities and challenges for private tower companies.Support the show

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

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

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 Towers Business Editor the fiber market’s opportunities and challenges.Support the show

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

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 Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor about structural design considerations, available products and innovations.Support the show

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 particularly applicable to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program.Juan Carlos “JC” Ortiz, Principal-Corporate Business Development, and Mykola “Myk” Konrad, Senior Vice President-Head of Product at iconectiv, join John Celentano, Inside Towers, Business Editor to discuss Common Language codes and their benefits for the telecom industry.Support the show

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

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 flow of materials and labor needed to complete the job to customer specifications.Kelly Lazuka, CEO at Fullerton shares her perspectives and outlook on the telecom infrastructure services business in conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers, Business Editor. Support the show

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

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 Business Editor, his insights and outlook on the satellite communications business and non-terrestrial network opportunities.For information on Kratos’ Open Space Platform, visit https://www.kratosdefense.com/systems-and-platforms/space-systems/dynamic-ground/platform.Support the show

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

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

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 & Tel in conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor discuss the important role that distributors play in the telecom supply chain and how that role is evolving. Support the show

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 Morgan, Clearfield’s Chief Marketing Officer, Roberto Vargas, Technology Platform Manager, Active Cabinets, and Michael Wood, Market Manager discuss with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor the company’s role in the fiber business and its outlook on the fiber market.Support the show

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

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

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 his constituents across the coastal region of Georgia. The conversation also covered how Congress works with NTIA and the FCC to ensure federal money results in timely and quality deployment. Rep. Carter discusses how Georgia has an excellent Broadband Ready Cities certification program that gives guidelines to cities and counties to streamline permitting for broadband, with 49 communities already certified. Support the show