Nextel and Sprint keep building tower sites despite merger
Ken Schmidt (internal link) reports,
"The wireless cell site or tower construction business is going crazy -- Sprint and Nextel are both pursuing search rings, areas to locate in -- sometimes right near each other. Verizon is active again and Cingular has started to appear once more. Have not heard anything on TMobile, but I assume that is a matter of time."
"This activity seems to be completing long laid plans that were on hold until mergers were finalized. Sprint and Nextel are proceeding full bore in disregard of their merger. I know of locations where they are close to each other and proceeding on their own. There will undoubtedly be some unhappy landowners with signed leases that will never commence if they do in fact merge."
More from Ken on the cell site or tower location process here. (internal link)
Ken's new site is http://www.celltowerinfo.com (external link)