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cell phone companies that lease tower space

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Does anyone know any companies that are actively looking for tower space to lease? I am obviously in SW Georgia...
 
This will be a tough one. You could try contacting the engineering departments of the individual companies but that could take a lifetime. Most companies have done their buildout already or by merging have all the sites they need. Some have even dumped sites that duplicate coverage. Most companies are only building fill-in sites that help where there is a hole in the coverage. You could also try someone like American Tower or Crown Castle to see if they would manage the site. You could end up with 60% of whatever rent they get or whatever percentage you negotiate. They are often a pain to work with but they have the contacts you need. Hard to do this yourself.
 
Keep in mind that if this is an AM tower, you will have to turn off your transmitter anytime they are installing or working on equipment that is on the tower. This translates to hours or sometimes days of down time. If this is a series fed AM tower they will have to use isocouplers or other means to decouple their antenna and coax from the tower, i.e. more expense to user. A lot of potential tower users are not to thrilled about going on a high power broadcast tower because of potential RF interference problems. But good luck!
 
vacuum tube said:
Keep in mind that if this is an AM tower, you will have to turn off your transmitter anytime they are installing or working on equipment that is on the tower. This translates to hours or sometimes days of down time. If this is a series fed AM tower they will have to use isocouplers or other means to decouple their antenna and coax from the tower, i.e. more expense to user. A lot of potential tower users are not to thrilled about going on a high power broadcast tower because of potential RF interference problems. But good luck!
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The deal is we are moving our AM Tower to a new location and the buyer for the property wants to leave the tower up and lease space out to both cell phone companies and have our FM translator on it since it is at the highest point in the county with great potential coverage . Our new AM Transmitter site is in a nice low wet site where it should have been to start with...
 
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