By a vote of 6-1, with two councilors absent, the Loveland City Council approved the second reading of an ordinance allowing the city to issue the bonds. Loveland staff will now begin the three-year process to construct a city-wide fiber broadband network that is capable of offering up to gigabit speeds for any resident or business. The city and its consultants will immediately start the process of bonding for about $97 million (the exact amount depends on a number of factors, including the interest rate on the bonds, the term of the bonds and structure of the financing).
How warp-speed wireless will transform business
Chicago is one of the first U.S. markets to get 5G. However, it will take time – likely several years – before coverage is widespread enough to be really useful. Crown Castle, which installs equipment and leases it to various carriers, received more than half the permi...
Enhancing wireless technology
Crown Castle’s Michael Petricone, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Consumer Technology Association (CTA), published an op-ed in The Georgetowner noting, "Everyone is committed to installing equipment on poles that will blend into the environment to preserve the a...
5G can’t come soon enough for these stocks
There are three main players in the wireless tower space: $86-billion market value American Tower, $53-billion Crown Castle International—both structured as real-estate investment trusts, or REITs—and $23 billion SBA Communications (SBAC). Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche sa...
ABNY Talks – Mobile broadband infrastructure by Chris Levendos
Crown Castle VP of Network Engineering and Operations Chris Levendos presented on mobile broadband infrastructure to the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) this past January, stating "some of the key infrastructure investments that are necessary here in New York City to enab...
AT&T maintains top spot for US fibre lit buildings
AT&T "has topped Vertical Systems Group’s US fibre lit buildings leaderboard for the third consecutive year." Crown Castle, along with Verizon, Spectrum Enterprise, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Frontier, Zayo, Altice USA and Windstream were listed as the companies with the mos...
State’s fiber investments bring speed, reliability and recognition
Crown Castle is investing in speed upgrades in Wilmington, Delaware, moving from 10gbps to 100 gbps, said Stephen Barnosky, account executive in enterprise fiber. Crown laid down its first Delaware fiber in 2005 and now has a network of more than 600 route miles statewide. To compensate for th...