kimocrossman
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join:2004-12-22
San Francisco, CA
| how to market wireless tower space?
hi i live in San Francisco and am friends with the owner of a few tall buildings in the center of the city (and each of these buildings have emergency generators). These buildings are located on Market St the main street in the city which would be filled with Fiber.
i'd like to rollout wireless to the multi-residential building i'm in - and one way to pay for it might be to:
1)sell the roof tops of these buildings to wireless providers - particularly with discussions about city-wide lans (ISP Anchor Free or Tempe, Az),new Push To Talk networks like i think Verizon, and other new upcoming wireless technologies.
2) sell roof tops to microwave providers or microwave of large bandwidth internet pipe and then resell a portion of the bandwidth to businesses below his building?
3) access to basement to create vaults for wired, fiber or other purposes since it's next to the street etc.
do any of these make sense? how would i go about finding and contacting providers? Are there other ways - satellite? etc
thanks
kimo |
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cmaenginsb
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join:2001-03-19
Palmdale, CA
| Many building providers do this now for cell and other wireless providers. In some cases the rooftop rights are leased to a third party management company.
You might get one or two providers on a scattered number of buildings depending on existing coverage. What will influence an increase of sites is the move to 1900Mhz because the site density needs to increase.
A microwave provider might need to lease space as well.
You might find a WISP that will want to place a radio on the roof and provide service to the tenants, but in order to get them to pay for the placement of the radio, generally they are going to do the selling to tennants not you. A better idea with this is to do a marketing partnership. You get the ISP to bring in the bandwidth, you help them sell to the tenants and in exchange you get a percentage of the profits.
Generally the providers will try and contact the landowner or rooftop management company. What is needed is a contact in the industry now. |
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kimocrossman
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join:2004-12-22
San Francisco, CA | sure, i'm fine with alternate business approaches - i meed info on who to contact in the biz.
kimo |
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