Verizon, AT&T Announce Plans To Build and Share Hundreds of New Cell Towers (fiercewireless.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Verizon and AT&T announced a joint venture with Tillman Infrastructure to build and share hundreds of cell towers in more in a move that is sure to be seen as a threat to more established tower companies. The companies said the new structures "will add to the overall communications infrastructure in the United States," filling gaps in current tower footprints, but will also enable the nation's two largest network operators to relocate equipment from towers they're currently using. Construction plans on the first towers will begin early next year and will come online "quickly" as they are completed.

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Perhaps I'm the only one

[93 Escort Wagon]

But it seems like this summary - and the article itself - would be more useful if it supplied additional information.

I certainly know very little about how cellular towers are managed - until a few minutes ago, I assumed the carriers themselves owned them. Apparently that is wrong...