By J. Sharpe Smith December 2, 2014 — Zayo Group, whose 81,000 route miles of dense metro and intercity fiber assets provide the backbone for cell tower backhaul, DAS and small cells, raised $400 million in an initial public offering last month. The stock, which debuted at $19 a share, is trading at more than… Continue »
By J. Sharpe Smith — December 3, 2014 — When Global Tower Partners sold all of its U.S. towers, it might have seemed like Marc Ganzi left the tower industry. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the past year, he has been busy rebuilding his wireless infrastructure empire, investing in wireless infrastructure companies, raising… Continue »
By Jonathan Atkin — November 20, 2014 — AT&T’s announced Y/Y reduction in capex during 2015 is consistent with our macro tower leasing outlook which already projects a decline next year. From a network perspective, the AT&T reduction appears inconsistent with RootMetrics data suggesting a recent degradation in quality. Amongst towercos, American Tower and SBA… Continue »
By J. Sharpe Smith — UPDATE — November 25, 2014 — Auction bids now total more than $34 billion. Fearing that the operators are spending to much on the spectrum, investors are selling their stocks, according to Aaron Pressman, Yahoo Finance. AT&T’s and Verizon’s stock went down 3 percent and 4 percent, respectively, while DISH Network shares… Continue »
Unimar has launched a Remote Diagnostic Unit for medium intensity lighting systems under the Uni-Mon trade name. Uni-Mon is designed to interface with all of the latest generations of Unimar’s DLS and WLS Series of Dual and White LED controllers and retro fits onto most other LED-based medium intensity lighting systems to provide system status… Continue »
Pasternack Enterprises has launched a family of high frequency, WR-15 waveguide antennas, which are perfectly designed for high-bandwidth applications including point-to-point links, GigE wireless LAN, millimeter radiometry, uncompressed HD video, FMCW radar, millimeter scintillometry, campus networks, and multi-gigabit wireless communications. Offered in this release are four high gain WR-15 horn antennas operating between 50 GHz… Continue »