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US CELLULAR CELL TOWER
LEASE RENEGOTIATION
US Cellular is a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems (TDS). They are 6th in terms of number of subscribers, with approximately 6.1 million customers in 26 states. US Cellular is continuing to develop their Long-Term Evolution (4G) roll out plans for faster mobile broadband access, and has recently named Mary Dillon, the former McDonald’s Chief Marketing Officer, as their new president and CEO effective June 1, 2010. Md7 has partnered with US Cellular in order to negotiate a lease amendment which typically contains a five year guarantee to pay a newly reduced rent.
If you are looking for the MD7 or US Cellular company website and have come here by mistake, please visit MD7's company website. We are an independent consulting firm that assists landowners who have been contacted by MD7 or US Cellular with evaluating their offers.
The Md7 sales agents sit in their call centers and attempt to convince landowners that their cell tower lease is in jeopardy and that some money is better than none. They tend to be aggressive, and sometimes make misleading representations about the future of your cellular site or the wireless industry in general. Most landowners are ill-equipped to deal with the loss of the lease entirely and feel that they must negotiate. To further compound matters, asking questions of the call agents is a fruitless endeavor. They don't know the answer, don't care, or simply misdirect the questions asked by the landowner. One question may be about where a “redundant” cell site actually is or why your tower was chosen to be renegotiated. Very rarely do the agents know the answers to specific questions about your lease.
Unfortunately, many landowners buy into the threats or misleading representations by the agents and agree to unnecessary rent concessions only to have their lease guaranteed. This is not a great proposition, but the prospect of getting no money is even worse, so many landowners have been agreeing to the offers proposed by Md7.
The Md7 agents representing US Cellular can be very convincing. But there is no need to make an uninformed decision without some expert advice.
This is where Steel in the Air comes in. We can help in several ways:
- We can help determine whether or not your cell site is redundant with another US Cellular Wireless cell site. We maintain our own proprietary database of 65,000 towers and can map your location against these towers as well as the FCC registered towers and the FAA obstructions. Many times we can tell exactly where the nearest US Cellular tower or cell site is through our database. Sometimes we can't, but we have other resources to find that information. Furthermore, we have hired outside Radio Frequency engineers to assist us in determining what construes a "redundant" site.
- We can provide advice about the risk of termination of your site in terms of the wireless industry in general, as well as report our evaluation of the risk of termination of your specific site. This report would evaluate whether there are viable alternative locations which US Cellular could move to if they decide to terminate your lease.
- We can share with you the results of what has happened with other clients facing Md7 renegotiation offers.
- If we do find that your site has significant risk of termination, we can provide you with alternative strategies to reduce that risk.
We do not have secret knowledge of what sites are being terminated, but we do have a better grasp of the situation. We can specifically review your location and help you make an informed decision. We can outline the risks involved in not negotiating and help you make a decision you can live with.
Our services typically take between one and two hours at our typical rate of $500/hour. If the lease is expiring, the evaluation may take more time, and we can give an estimate before we commence the review. Virtually all of our clients have saved far more than this in future lease payments by using our service.
If you have received a letter from Md7 concerning your US Cellular lease, please call or email us for more information. We can ease your anxieties about the future of your lease by helping you decide whether you should agree to a reduction in rent or any other concessions Md7 may ask of you.
If you still have questions on whether or not our consultation services are right for you- please see what some of our 1500+ clients have had to say about our services in our Testimonials page.
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