When I was with AT&T we budgeted $150k per 100' monopole...
On 3/14/07, Brian Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A tower to support a cell carrier would easily approach $100,000 Thank You, Brian Webster -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:19 AM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: [WISPA] A new tower for WISP and Cell Carrier? I've got a remote rural location where we're thinking of putting up a 100' tower on a "mountain" owned by a large customer. Turns out that location can see one of our existing networks, which is great. However, the customer has extremely poor (or non-existent) cell phone coverage and would like to use this as an opportunity to possibly support a cell phone carrier-and they are willing to pay for the tower if it's not 'excessively' expensive to do so. Now, I've got no experience putting up towers, though with the work I'd done for past potential towers, I've been estimating maybe $15K in costs for a tower that only needs to support a WISP (counting the cost of the tower, a local tower company to erect it, and zoning fees. If this is off base, I'm open to comments here too). Of course, I know even less about what a cell company might be expected to need than I do about tower construction. Can anyone give me reasonable budget numbers for a 100' tower that could support (from a loading standpoint) both a WISP (using, say, 3 120 degree sectors and a 3' back haul dish) and a cell company? If there's not enough information, just a reasonable estimate and the basis for it might help to decide if this is worth pursuing. If you're a vendor, please feel free to contact me (via email) off list. Thanks! Chuck -- ----------------------- Chuck Bartosch Clarity Connect, Inc. 200 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-8268 x108 Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. A Psalm of Life, Longfellow -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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