Well the landlord is getting $1150.00/month now and ATC is trying to re-negotiate it down to $700.00.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:57 PM Carl Peterson <cpeter...@portnetworks.com> wrote: > Kurt, > > I don't know what city you are talking about, but building out on every > pole is exactly what VZN/Crown are doing elsewhere. Like literally every > 400' or so. Cities can't stop them from deploying small cell but might > slow them down. > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:45 AM Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Carl, >> >> This is the only "LTE" tower verizon has for at least 5 miles in all >> directions. They have another tower outside of town about 2 miles away and >> I don't think it is LTE as it was from the old 1x days. I doubt they could >> get downtown coverage from that with LTE and get any speed at all. The >> problem is they can't just build another tower downtown because the zoning >> is so restrictive that no new towers can be built. Unless they plan on >> rolling out a ton of 5G sites on Telephone poles I don't see theme getting >> the coverage they have today. And there are no tall buildings around either. >> >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:28 PM Carl Peterson <cpeter...@portnetworks.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I'd look carefully at where VZN is in its small cell deployment in >>> that market. They are pulling off of a lot of the higher priced real >>> estate in areas where the small cell network is complete. >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:23 AM Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote: >>> >>>> The tower companies are getting squeezed hard by the cell carriers. >>>> If American can’t cut back what they are charging Verizon it's pretty >>>> likely Verizon will move off the site. That might be hard to do but big >>>> companies often fail to look at what it will cost them to replace it at any >>>> given site. They may very well have a blanket contract with another tower >>>> provider that says they can order them up where they want and it’s the >>>> other companies problem to figure out how to do it. >>>> >>>> As far as buyout or renegotiate - really depends on the owner and what >>>> they value more. Stable income, or a one-time payout. Plenty of >>>> municipalities can’t resist the up front cash since it makes the current >>>> politicians look good and don’t worry about the fact that they screwed the >>>> taxpayers for the next 100 years. The other party will be in power by the >>>> time the money is spent so I guess it doesn’t matter. >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> > On Apr 8, 2020, at 12:15 PM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > On 4/8/20 9:04 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: >>>> >> Both those offers are less than what the current lease payments are, >>>> the one time buyout will break even in 15-20 years. So what I'm wondering >>>> here is American Tower trying to pull their bluff on saying they will "look >>>> for alternative sites" ? >>>> >> I don't really see them going through all the hassle to build >>>> another site close to this one just to get a $400 cheaper/per month >>>> payment. Verizon really needs this site downtown because there are no other >>>> towers close to it and the city zoning is so strict that no new towers can >>>> be built. >>>> >> Any tips for dealing with the tower owner? >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Offer it to Verizon if ATC wants out of the lease? It seems unlikely >>>> that ATC is going to pay all of VZ's costs to move everything. >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > AF mailing list >>>> > AF@af.afmug.com >>>> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> AF@af.afmug.com >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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