AT&T wants to put tower on my land - want TB will it roam to VZW?

koalabear

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Thought some of you might find this amusing. I am long-time VZW coverage fan and waiting for TB. Yesterday a rep for AT&T Mobility shows up at my door and they identified my place for a cell tower! SO question is will my VZW Thunderbolt roam to that tower? I am in a rural location and have no cell service otherwise.
 

thegoon9

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I'm pretty sure that you will not be able to roam off of that tower. CDMA (Verizon) and GSM (AT&T) are two different technologies, so I believe you are out of luck. Of course if it's too close sometimes you won't get signal anyway. My girlfriend lives almost under a cell phone tower and she gets almost zero signal.
 

jas o

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It is possible. VZW would only have to pay rent and not maintain the tower. Not sure I would hold my breathe though.
 

RestlessDroid

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Thought some of you might find this amusing. I am long-time VZW coverage fan and waiting for TB. Yesterday a rep for AT&T Mobility shows up at my door and they identified my place for a cell tower! SO question is will my VZW Thunderbolt roam to that tower? I am in a rural location and have no cell service otherwise.

Koalabear... they just showed up? I have terrible service from all companies where I live and we've tried to get one to put up a tower on our property... without success. Just curious if you went through a process. Thanks.
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How much are they paying to put that there? Perhaps you could tell them that they could only do it if they give Verizon free rent on it. That may help convince Verizon to look at it.
 

koalabear

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Yes AT&T just showed up, no process, I've heard its pretty difficult to actually get them to come to you. The AT&T guy said they would build the tower for three carriers and I should fully expect Verizon and someone else to want to get on it eventually. The pricing is the tower builder pays me a lease, they co-locate the other carriers on the tower with nothing extra to me but they would have to pay me for a ground lease for their own equipment structure.

The said the tower wouldn't be complete til August so guess I should hold off on getting another Verizon phone. Their RF engineer will be out here next week so maybe he can shed some light, thanks all!

Oh on getting a tower I found this site that has lots of info. Cell Tower Lease Experts: Steel in the Air, Inc.
 

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Yes AT&T just showed up, no process, I've heard its pretty difficult to actually get them to come to you. The AT&T guy said they would build the tower for three carriers and I should fully expect Verizon and someone else to want to get on it eventually. The pricing is the tower builder pays me a lease, they co-locate the other carriers on the tower with nothing extra to me but they would have to pay me for a ground lease for their own equipment structure.

The said the tower wouldn't be complete til August so guess I should hold off on getting another Verizon phone. Their RF engineer will be out here next week so maybe he can shed some light, thanks all!

Oh on getting a tower I found this site that has lots of info. Cell Tower Lease Experts: Steel in the Air, Inc.

Make sure you get a lawyer to check out the contract. I wouldn't trust a telecom company as far as I could throw it.
 

anon(75289)

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Make sure you get a lawyer to check out the contract. I wouldn't trust a telecom company as far as I could throw it.

^^^ YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. I can't stress that YES enough.

That is really a fantastic opportunity for you. You can make a lot of money from the deal, but DON'T get screwed. Because they will try to convince you that they are already giving you a good deal when they aren't. I have a tower on the property immediately behind my house and have talked to the owners about how that lease was made. Apparently they went back and forth with a lawyer for a year until they finally agreed to an awesome deal.
 

RestlessDroid

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Yes AT&T just showed up, no process, I've heard its pretty difficult to actually get them to come to you. The AT&T guy said they would build the tower for three carriers and I should fully expect Verizon and someone else to want to get on it eventually. The pricing is the tower builder pays me a lease, they co-locate the other carriers on the tower with nothing extra to me but they would have to pay me for a ground lease for their own equipment structure.

The said the tower wouldn't be complete til August so guess I should hold off on getting another Verizon phone. Their RF engineer will be out here next week so maybe he can shed some light, thanks all!

Oh on getting a tower I found this site that has lots of info. Cell Tower Lease Experts: Steel in the Air, Inc.

That's awesome. I know they some hefty lease payments around my area. I don't care about getting rich off of it. I just want good service and enough money for top of the line phones. Anything more is gravy. Thanks for the input.

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koalabear

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^^^ YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. I can't stress that YES enough.

That is really a fantastic opportunity for you. You can make a lot of money from the deal, but DON'T get screwed. Because they will try to convince you that they are already giving you a good deal when they aren't. I have a tower on the property immediately behind my house and have talked to the owners about how that lease was made. Apparently they went back and forth with a lawyer for a year until they finally agreed to an awesome deal.
thanks for that - have retained an expert.
 

pheatton

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Yeah having a lawyer is a very good idea. They more then likely try and take advantage of most people they put towers on their property.
 

bstmstrxellos

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When AT&T finally releases LTE you might be able to roam on that tower if AT&T's LTE is in the 700 mhz range, but you can roam on it for 3G.
 

paulmike3

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Yeah having a lawyer is a very good idea. They more then likely try and take advantage of most people they put towers on their property.

Agreed. You should also look at property values with towers on them. I, personally, would never buy a home with a tower in the backyard. Too many unknowns with cell radiation, etc. Maybe in 50 years when we know half the world is or isn't dead from brain cancer...... ;)