Looking for ways to reduce costs and streamline business? With the constantly changing technology landscape in emerging markets (including 4G and 5G services) as well as the increased data demands with pressure for expanded network capacity, tower colocation is one way businesses can maximize their revenue stream. Not only that but it can also add value to properties, financially benefiting owners in more way than one.
About Tower Colocation and Wireless Subleasing
Cell tower colocation (sometimes spelled collocation or co-location) is the sale of a structure to deploy (mount) multiple mobile telecommunications antennas at that single site. Customers could be a mobile network operator, internet service provider, security function or even a private corporation who needs secure communications. Tower companies usually own or lease their tower structure under a long term contract and property owners who have a tower on their land can also lease the vertical space.
Types of Tower Colocation Sharing
Telecom service providers can share infrastructure in many different ways; generally known as either passive or active.
Passive mobile infrastructure sharing is popular in the telecom industry worldwide. It includes the tower sites and all of the infrastructure on them, such as the towers themselves, cables, ducts, shelters and power facilities and cooling systems (excluding radio equipment).
Active sharing is the sharing of electronic infrastructure. This involves an operator providing one or more third party operators access to all or part of the network.
Build-to-Suit
Build-to-suit (BTS) development projects are common in emerging markets where network rollout is currently in the process of completion and colocation is not an option. Operators who enter into these arrangements with tower companies are able to reduce their future operational expenditures associated with constructing and operating new towers.
As an approved vendor with all major tower owners throughout the USA, our team of structural engineers at KMB will handle everything for your project. From full tower and site analysis (land surveys, environmental site assessment, geo-technical analysis, zoning and permitting); site acquisition; permitting and legal due diligence; site development; construction management; and equipment installation, we’re your trusted partners for delivering desired results.
KMB Structural Engineering and Tower Colocation Services
When reviewing a tower to accommodate these additional equipment loads, it is essential that you work with an engineering company that understands the appropriate codes, loading factors and how these factors are applied within the finite element design software. KMB has a proven track record of working to maximize your vertical real-estate to ensure that property owners can achieve greater profitability and that carriers can meet their deployment and coverage objectives.
Learn more about which telecom tower will best suit your project in our blog, “Different Types of Telecom Towers: Which Design is Right for Your Site?”
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