Map Legend
Acquisition
- Approximate Duration: 4-6 Weeks
- Once it is determined that a new tower is needed to provide coverage to customers not already within existing coverage areas, we vet land or existing towers that will help us gain coverage in those areas of need. We then work with necessary parties to sign a lease agreement.
Pre-Construction
- Approximate Duration: 4-6 Weeks
- This next stage consists of obtaining development orders, completing surveys, approving soil samples, completing engineering documents, site drawings, and engineering letters, and, finally, obtaining a building permit. These sub-stages depend heavily on outside contractors.
Ready For Construction
- Approximate Duration: Undetermined
- This site has been designated as a tower site but no build date has been established due to other system considerations.
Construction
- Approximate Duration: 2-3 Weeks
- Once ready for construction, our team must dig a large and strategic hole, lay the rebar inside the hole, schedule and rely on another team to pour the concrete. The concrete must be tested several times until it passes a strength test. Once the concrete is stable, our team assembles the tower and connects.
Pre-Deployment
- Approximate Duration: 2-3 Weeks
- Pre-Deployment is where the cabling antennas, radios, and telecom enclosures are installed. Once our team has accomplished these installations, the tower needs to be connected by the electric company (the company varies depending on the tower location).
Deployment
- Approximate Duration: 1-2 Weeks
- We are getting close! Once the tower has electricity, we can configure all the equipment, test network connectivity, check wireless performance, and enter equipment into the monitoring and billing software.
Released to Production
- WE MADE IT! The site is live and ready for customer installations.