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The FCC auction ended on Monday and many cell tower companies were pleased with the results - possibly more so than even the auction winners. With bidding over, cellular service providers are now faced with the task of extending their networks and building AWS for their consumers. This places tower companies such as ATC, Global Signal, and Crown Castle in an auspicious light.

After some cellular service providers spent billions of dollars to acquire their licenses, it goes without saying that they will have an aggressive mentality to build their consumer base. More consumers means more towers to carry the call signals, and cell tower companies will be asked to build and lease them.

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IntelliOne hopes to provide real-time traffic monitoring to anyone who wants the data. Their software, which is still being tested, will provide the positions of callers talking on their cell phones. The use of cell towers to track callers is different that methods currently employed.

Traffic monitoring companies use mile-by-mile towers to register user data of drivers and their active cell phones. This has prevented the technology from growing outside of metropolitan areas, where it is more expensive to build the infrastructure needed. Traffic monitoring will only be available in select markets at the end of next year and only for CDMA phones. Over time the company hopes to add GSM phones to its service as well as other markets.

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