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Inside Towers Managing Editor Jim Fryer shares the Ethernet with some of Telecom's key players in this Tower and Wireless Infrastructure News Podcast. Subscribe to the Inside Towers daily newsletter here: https://insidetowers.com/subscription/
Episodes
- Ontivity: The Evolving Digital Infrastructure Ecosystem
Eric Chase and Dave Mayo share perspectives on the telecom industry's evolution into a broader digital infrastructure ecosystem. They highlight Ontivity's involvement in designing and building various digital infrastructure asset classes.
- #255 - Valmont: The Silent Signal Killer, Finding & Fixing PIM
In episode #255 of Tower Talks, Drew Martin from Valmont Telecom explains Passive Intermodulation (PIM) interference. He details how PIM is caused by various elements at a cell site, making it difficult to detect and fix, and discusses met…
- #254 - Fiber Broadband Association: The Dynamic Fiber Broadband Market
Gary Bolton, President & CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association, discusses the rapid growth and outlook for the fiber broadband business with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor. They also touch on the upcoming Fiber Connect even…
- #253 - Harmoni Towers: Growth Opportunities for Private Tower Companies
Chas Peterson and Aaron Bloom from Harmoni Towers discuss the opportunities and challenges for private tower companies, including scaling, permitting, financing, and competition, with John Celentano.
- #252 - CCA: On Top of Member Legislative Issues
In this episode of Tower Talks, CCA President and CEO Tim Donovan discusses the association's key priorities with Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief Leslie Stimson. Topics include the NTIA's BEAD program, spectrum access, permitting, th…
- #251 - Critical Cabling: Powering Reliable Networks in a High-Stakes Era
A 1988 Chicago-area telecom fire exposed how dangerous traditional cabling materials were, and how digital infrastructure depends on reliable power systems. As data demand grows and network integrity becomes increasingly critical, power co…
- #250 - FCC's Commissioner Gomez: What's Holding up BEAD?
Many delays have impacted the federal government’s BEAD program. This and other events have slowed getting shovels in the ground for government help for states and their contractors looking to expand broadband deployment. In this Tower Tal…
- #249 - Palistar Capital: Investing in Digital Infrastructure
The tower business is alive and well. U.S. mobile network operators are expanding their networks and tower companies are benefiting from that increased deployment activity. Smaller, private tower companies remain active with new tower buil…
- #248 - Harmoni Towers: Growing a Private Tower Company
Increasing mobile data consumption and closing the digital divide are big drivers for continued capacity and coverage expansion among mobile network operators. Private tower companies have been most active in new tower builds and M&A activ…
- #247 - Wireless Water Cooler - Satellite and Telecom discussion with Consultant Tim Farrar
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA President and CEO, and Leslie Stimson, Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief, discussed the evolution of satellite-to-phone, direct-to-device (D2D) technology with Tim Farrar, founder of TMF Associates . Tim fo…
- #246 - Husch Blackwell: New Towers and Property Values
Residents often push back on new tower developments in their communities for various reasons – location of the tower, how it looks, health risks and lowering of property values. The last point is often the focus of much discussion and deba…
- #245 - Allfasteners: Supporting Data Center Builds
Modern mounting systems for digital infrastructure equipment go beyond basic frames—they're adaptable, configurable, and designed to secure active gear while providing organized pathways for power and signal cables. Calvin Waskey, with the…
- #244 - Wireless Water Cooler Hosts Arpan Sura, FCC’s Chief AI Officer
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor, recently chatted with Arpan Sura, Senior Counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Chief AI Officer, on their Wireless Water Cooler podcast. In th…
- #243 - OneVizion: Accessing Disparate Information in Large Organizations
Large organizations deal with a lot of data and information that is often in silos and not shared among internal groups. Digital infrastructure projects, for example, involve site acquisition and permitting, engineering, construction and o…
- #242 - Fiberlight: Fiber Market Dynamics and Outlook
Demand for fiber connectivity is at an all-time high. Both dark and lit fiber are in demand for connections to towers, enterprises, and data centers, and for middle-mile routes connecting fiber-to-the-home deployments. Fiber strand counts…
- #241 - Power & Tel: Telecom in Transition
Wireless, fiber, and data center markets are projected to grow in 2025 and in subsequent years. Nonetheless, these markets are encountering challenges due to the prevailing macroeconomic conditions. These factors collectively influence the…
- #240 - Sitetracker - Beyond the Build: Managing Digital Infrastructure Efficiently
Building and managing digital infrastructure —whether it’s towers, fiber networks, or data centers—is a multifaceted challenge, requiring precise coordination across design, construction, and ongoing operations. Brant Carter, VP-Product at…
- #239 - Myths Costing U.S. TowerCos Million (and How to Fix Them)
Digital twins have become a powerful tool for TowerCos - helping to uncover hidden revenue, reduce costs, and improve decision-making. But misconceptions about site data and operations are still costing TowerCos millions, according to vHiv…
- #238 - Towers & Withstanding the Test of Time with Congruex
Although designed to last a long time, towers undergo continual loading changes as mobile network operators and wireless service providers add, upgrade or replace their transmission equipment. And towers must withstand constant changes in…
- #237 - Telecommunications Against Trafficking and Exploitation
Human trafficking involves the exploitation of men, women and children, for some sort of control or monetary gain. The Telecommunications Against Trafficking and Exploitation, or T.A.T.E., initiative offers guidelines for the many men and…
- #236 - Harmoni Towers - Colocating Tenants on Towers
Tower companies report an increase in colocation requests from MNOs and other wireless operators, more than for lease amendments on existing sites. Onboarding second or third tenants involves different considerations than hosting the ancho…
- #235 - Wireless Water Cooler Hosts Jim Stritzinger, Head of the SC Broadband Office
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor recently chatted with Jim Stritzinger, the Director of the South Carolina Broadband Office on the Wireless Water Cooler podcast. In this lively an…
- #234 - Meeting Health & Safety Standards using Power-Ascenders
Tower climbers work in all kinds of weather that affect their health and safety, especially in hot and humid conditions. Industry and government agencies are making a concerted effort to establish appropriate Heat Injury and Illness Preven…
- #233 - Mobile Tower Siting Case with Husch Blackwell
We often hear about municipalities or individuals pushing back on new cell tower developments in their communities over location or aesthetics. A recent case involved two competing tower companies that went to court over a siting dispute w…
- #232 - Private Tower Company Opportunities and Challenges
In the U.S., large public tower companies hold a substantial portion of the communications towers in operation. The remainder are owned and managed by numerous smaller private companies that support a range of mobile network operators and…
- #230 - Weekly News Recap - August 5 - 9, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of August 5, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #231- Symphony on the State of the Wireless Industry
The digital infrastructure business continues to be dynamic and challenging. Bernard Borghei, tower company veteran and CEO of Symphony Wireless, shares his perspectives and outlook on the wireless market and overall digital infrastructure…
- #229 - The Fiber Market: An Overview & Outlook
Fiber optic systems are used everywhere to provide high speed connections to buildings, towers, and data centers. Increasing demand for high-speed data, streaming video and burgeoning AI-enabled services is driving construction and expansi…
- #228 - Weekly News Recap - July 22 - 26, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of July 22, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #227 - Navigating Cell Site Structural Challenges
Steel structural elements are designed to support the weight and wind loading that macrocell antennas and radio units create on a tower. More important, structural elements must be designed and installed to minimize passive intermodulation…
- #226 - Telecom Common Language
iconectiv TruOps Common Language® is a distributed data registry that increases corporate revenues by streamlining network planning, service activation and technology rollouts via industry standard location and equipment identification cod…
- #225 - Weekly News Recap - July 15 - 19, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of July 15, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #224 - The Telecom Infrastructure Services Business Trajectory
Planning and building digital infrastructure is hard and requires technical and project management capabilities and skills that few organizations can offer at scale. Fullerton is an established engineering and construction management firm…
- #223 - Weekly News Recap - June 10 - 14, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of June 10, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #221 - Weekly News Recap - May 28 - 31, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of May 28, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #222 - 5G Non-terrestrial Network Opportunities with Kratos
Satellite-based services for decades have provided a variety of applications across commercial, industrial and government markets. Different satellite systems – GEO, MEO, LEO - serve different purposes. Recent discussions on direct satelli…
- #220 - Weekly News Recap - May 13 - 17, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of May 13, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #219 - Power & Tel: A Supply Chain of Events
Telecom equipment distributors play a pivotal role in supplying all the infrastructure elements that make broadband and mobile networks work. Distributors stock their warehouses with thousands of products from hundreds of manufacturers and…
- #217- Weekly News Recap - April 29 - May 3, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 29, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #218 - Clearfield - Novel Solutions for Fiber Deployments
There is more and more fiber being deployed in the middle mile and deeper into the network to interconnect data centers and enterprises, provide wireless carriers with cell site backhaul, and enable telco and ISP deployments. Clearfield, a…
- #216- Weekly News Recap - April 15 - 19, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 15-19, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #215 - Wireless Water Cooler - Congressman Buddy Carter
Co-hosts Patrick Halley, WIA CEO and President, and Jim Fryer, Inside Towers Managing Editor recently chatted with U.S. Congressman Buddy Carter (GA-01) on the Wireless Water Cooler podcast. The five-term Congressman is Chair of the Enviro…
- #214 - Everest Infrastructure Partners: Global Growth Through Acquisitions
The tower business is alive and well, despite the slower pace of network builds among the U.S. mobile network operators. While the public tower companies are guiding to low single-digit growth in 2024, there is movement among the smaller,…
- #213 - Weekly News Recap - April 1 - 5, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of April 1, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #212- Weekly News Recap - March 4 - 8, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of March 4, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #211- Weekly News Recap - February 26 - March 1, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of February 26, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #209 - The Tower Family Foundation with Jim Tracy
Jim Tracy has worked in the wireless infrastructure business for many years, from climbing towers to running his own tower contracting business, to serving as Board Chairman of NATE and now as President of the Tower Family Foundation (TFF)…
- #210- Weekly News Recap - February 19 - 23, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of January 19, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #208 - Weekly News Recap - January 29 - Feb 2, 2024
This is your Inside Towers Weekly Recap for the week of January 29, 2024. For more wireless infrastructure news, subscribe to our newsletter here . Support the show
- #207- TIF Takes on Industry Safety Issues
Tower climbing is inherently hazardous and dangerous. More than that, tower technicians must be knowledgeable and skilled at constructing towers, and installing and testing RF, fiber, and related power systems. The tower industry has alway…