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Tower Talks with Inside Towers
by Inside Towers
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/
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#263 - MaxCell: Streamlining Ducted Fiber Deployments
Installing fiber is not easy and involves everything from local permitting, supply chain issues and field construction work. Deploying fiber in underground cable ducts can be especially challenging. Ken Moore, Strategic Account Manager-Broadband at MaxCell speaks with John Celentano, Inside…
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#262 - Harmoni: Managing Tower Company Growth in a Dynamic Environment
Today’s tower business is being impacted by mobile network operator capex adjustments, new spectrum deployments, some carrier consolidation and AI applied to various tower operations. Yannis Macheras, Chief Executive Officer at Harmoni Towers, in conversation with John Celentano, Inside Towers...
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#261 - FiberLight: How Fiber Networks Support AI Distribution
Demand for fiber connectivity is escalating to support large data transfers in and between data centers, and ultimately, for AI inference applications where they are needed closer to users. Bill Major, Chief Executive Officer at FiberLight joins John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor to…
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#260 - Allfasteners: Rethinking RAN Deployments
Any discussion about wireless cell site installations usually focuses on antennas, radios and cables. But a lot of ancillary equipment is needed for mounting and protecting radios and antennas at height, so that they function as designed. Calvin Carmichael, Sales Representative at Allfasteners...
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#259 - Clearfield: From Access to AI, Fiber’s Expanding Role
Discussions at Fiber Connect 2026 addressed fiber deployments across a range of access and transport applications for broadband, wireless, data center and IoT uses. Clearfield bills itself as “The Fiber to Anywhere Company” and offers a wide variety of patented designed and manufactured…
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#258 - Network Connex: Wireless, Fiber, and Data Center Connectivity Convergence
Fiber Connect 2026 proved to be quite timely and significant at this point in the telecom industry with data center expansion booming, fiber builds ramping up with BEAD funding, and ongoing new tower construction. Doug Wittrock, Chief Operating Officer at Network Connex sat down with John...
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#257 - Husch Blackwell: From AI Factories to the Edge: The Next Data Center Shift
Hyperscale data centers, (aka AI factories), are expanding rapidly to develop AI Large Learning Models. However, the notion of edge data centers for AI Inference and high-speed, low-latency applications is getting renewed attention. Rod Carter and Jake Remington, partners at the telecom law...
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#256 - Ontivity: The Evolving Digital Infrastructure Ecosystem
The telecom industry is evolving from distinct wireless and wireline businesses into a broader digital infrastructure ecosystem. Ontivity is a company that is involved in a number of key aspects of designing and building a range of digital infrastructure asset classes. Eric Chase, Executive...
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#255 - Valmont: The Silent Signal Killer, Finding & Fixing PIM
Any kind of RF interference at a call site will diminish connections to cell phones and cause poor service which leads to customer complaints. Unlike active interference from nearby antennas, PIM, or passive intermodulation interference, can be caused by many elements in and around a cell site on…
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#254 - Fiber Broadband Association: The Dynamic Fiber Broadband Market
Fiber is the key connectivity element that ties together all digital infrastructure asset classes, for consumers and Enterprises alike. Gary Bolton, President & CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association, talks with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business Editor, about the rapid growth, the outlook…
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#253 - Harmoni Towers: Growth Opportunities for Private Tower Companies
Private tower companies are active in new tower builds and site modifications response to mobile network operator demand for colocations and amendments associated with coverage and capacity expansion. But scaling a tower company involves permitting, financing, competition, and availability of...
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#252 - CCA: On Top of Member Legislative Issues
The Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) opens its 2026 Mobility & Connectivity Show tomorrow in Louisville, Kentucky. In this Tower Talks podcast, CCA President and CEO Tim Donovan spoke with Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief Leslie Stimson before the show about hot topics for the...
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#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 conversion products and cabling must deliver consistent...
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#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 Talks podcast, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez speaks with Inside...
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#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 builds and consolidations but need funding. Palistar Capital…
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#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 activity in response to these market drivers. But scaling a…
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#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 founded his consultancy in 2002 to undertake technical…
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#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 debate at municipal hearings. Is this a valid concern for...
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#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 National Sales team at Allfasteners, discusses with John...
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#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 this lively talk, Sura discusses a variety of issues…
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#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 ongoing operations and maintenance. Infrastructure…
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#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 and optical transmission speeds are increasing…
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#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 telecom supply chain in both beneficial and adverse...
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#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 Sitetracker, discusses with John Celentano, Inside Towers...
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#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 vHive. In this episode, vHive’s CRO Itai Karelic joins Inside...
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#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 the weather. Mike Seymour, President and Bryan Lanier…
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#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 women who work in telecom to help prevent such…
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#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 anchor tenant. Harmoni Towers' CCO Chas Peterson and SVP of...
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#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 and candid half-hour talk, the focus is on innovative ways…
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#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 Prevention safety standards and practices in construction...
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#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 with an interesting outcome. Rod Carter, Partner, Jake...
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#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 other wireless service providers. Private tower companies...
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#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 ecosystem with John Celentano, Inside Towers Business...
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#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
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#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 expansion of fiber routes to provide more connectivity. At the…
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#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
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#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 interference, or PIM, that is generated from transmitted...
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#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 codes. Using Common Language codes streamlines communication...
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#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
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#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 that handles projects for tower companies and…
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#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
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#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 satellite to cell phone connections or broadband internet...
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#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
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#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
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#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 deliver orders for these products from network operators...
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#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 fiber management and connectivity provider, designs and...
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#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
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#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
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#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 Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee...
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#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, private tower companies. Private tower deals tend to be...
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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/
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