The tower companies are getting squeezed hard by the cell carriers. If American can’t cut back what they are charging Verizon it's pretty likely Verizon will move off the site. That might be hard to do but big companies often fail to look at what it will cost them to replace it at any given site. They may very well have a blanket contract with another tower provider that says they can order them up where they want and it’s the other companies problem to figure out how to do it.
As far as buyout or renegotiate - really depends on the owner and what they value more. Stable income, or a one-time payout. Plenty of municipalities can’t resist the up front cash since it makes the current politicians look good and don’t worry about the fact that they screwed the taxpayers for the next 100 years. The other party will be in power by the time the money is spent so I guess it doesn’t matter. Mark > On Apr 8, 2020, at 12:15 PM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: > > On 4/8/20 9:04 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: >> Both those offers are less than what the current lease payments are, the one >> time buyout will break even in 15-20 years. So what I'm wondering here is >> American Tower trying to pull their bluff on saying they will "look for >> alternative sites" ? >> I don't really see them going through all the hassle to build another site >> close to this one just to get a $400 cheaper/per month payment. Verizon >> really needs this site downtown because there are no other towers close to >> it and the city zoning is so strict that no new towers can be built. >> Any tips for dealing with the tower owner? > > > Offer it to Verizon if ATC wants out of the lease? It seems unlikely that ATC > is going to pay all of VZ's costs to move everything. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
