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Ken: Thank you so much for your expertise. I would recommend your talents to anybody that has cell equipment on their property.
Gypsy was a pleasure to work with too. Thank you kindly.
Patrick from California - T-Mobile Renegotiation Proposal Evaluation
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Cell Tower Lease Rates - Comparable Data
One of the things that we believe sets Steel in the Air, Inc. apart from its competitors is the quality of the data that we have available to us. In 1999, we started collecting datasets of tower locations across the US. Our data is composed of many details about each location, not just cell tower lease rates, which allows Steel in the Air to provide the highest quality analysis to our clients. Over the last 10 years, this database has grown to encompass over 165,000 cell tower and cell site locations. Our data comes from numerous public and private sources, many of which are not available to the general public.
This database includes the following information to the extent known:
- Cell Tower Location
- Cell Tower Type
- Height of Tower
- Latitude and Longitude of Tower
- FCC Identification Number (if registered)
- Carriers on the Tower (if known)
- Owner of the Tower
- Initial Owner/Developer of the Tower
- Ground Lease Rate
- Collocation Lease Rates
Over time, as we have assisted over 1,500 clients, we have also incorporated their data into our database. These clients have shared over 4,000 individual cell tower lease rates and comparable data which span the United States. We are regularly provided with cell tower lease rate data and collocation rate data for these towers as part of our projects. This gets included in the database. We have actively kept logs of every online newspaper article that mentions cell tower lease rates. We actively poll municipalities for any lease rate data that they have. As a result, there are very few areas of the country where we don't have good data on cell tower lease rates. And when people submit inquiries to our website, we track that data as well. (Please note that we treat our potential client's confidentiality seriously and do not sell or distribute this data. We do share lease rates but never with any local information. For instance, we may suggest to our client that we are aware of an AT&T lease that pays $1000/mo in St. Louis, MO, but we don't give an address or share the clients name or location)
To assist us in helping our clients, we developed a custom mapping application that allows us to see our tower data on high resolution aerial photography along with terrain. This enables us to determine what other towers or cell sites are in the area of the subject site and whether there is potential for consolidation. We have also incorporated our cell tower lease rates into Google Earth so that we can see lease rates of the closest cell towers near your site. When people ask us how we can review their site in California when we are in Fort Myers, we answer that we make it our business to know how to quickly find necessary information. See below for a screen shot of our tower database application.
We also track lease buyout offers- who they come from, what date they were offered on, how long the purchase offer is for, and how many months of rent the purchase offer represents. We have done this for over 1000 lease buyout offers representing around 10 various buyers of cell tower leases. We track extension offers so that if you receive an offer to extend your tower lease, we can check what other owners in similar situations received.
Candidly, we don't know how any other firm could effectively represent you without this type of data. Otherwise, they are just guessing blindly. If you have questions about our data, please either see our page on Cell Tower Location Data or Contact Us for more information.