[TowerTalk] Tower Leasing

[Blake Bowers]

As a commercial tower owner, these are the things we look at.  It must be on 
a written agreement.

1.  The leasee MUST have insurance and include you on the certificate.

2.  The leasee must provide a specific list of equipment to be used at the 
site.  If they change it, then they should pay more (or less)

3.  We offer NO exclusivity on frequencies, rather we have a FILO policy. 
If someone is added to the tower later that interferes with the first 
leasee, the newcomer has to fix it immediately, or shut down until it is 
fixed.  If they can't fix it, then they move from the tower.  That way the 
original leasee is protected, and we are able to lease to others.  Basically 
we require people to play well together.  Works so far.

4.  We always provide 24X7 access - but on some of our sites they have to 
provide security information beforehand.  A couple of our towers have been 
at very sensitive locations where the leasee has to pass background 
clearences by DOD beforehand.

5.  Most customers we have pull their own power, but your average WISP has 
such a low draw that we don't worry about it.

6.  We require installation to follow best practices as outlined in Motorola 
R-56 standards, the "bible" of the commercial tower world.  (Don't let the 
Motorola name scare you, these are best practices regardless of the 
manufacturer.

7.  We require industry standard safety procedures, such as 100% tie off, 
100% of the time.  If one of our people see stupid stuff going on, they can 
stop the work right then and there and require it to be corrected.

8.  Haveing a rentor changes your tower in the eyes of zoning and codes. 
The protection you enjoy from PRB-1 is out the window.  If the WISP's 
installer tells one of their new customers where the tower is, or it gets 
out somehow else, someone could raise a stink if you are in an area covered 
by zoning or codes.  We have had this happen twice now, once I saw it happen 
with a cellular company, the second it was a public safety agency.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil & Heather" <neil.goodell at myfairpoint.net>
To: <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 2:41 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Leasing


>I have been approached by a Communication Company
> about leasing "space" on my tower...It looks like they are
> trying to get better local wireless internet coverage.
> Has anyone else dealt with a situation like this??
> Pitfalls? Any suggestions or things I should ask of
> the communication company?
> Thanks
> 73
> Neil
> AE1P
> _______________________________________________