Demand for Tower Crews Will Increase in 2014

Even though the LTE build out really took off in 2013, in the year 2014 there will be no shortage of demand when it comes to tower crews. Sprint and T-Mobile are playing catch up to Verizon and AT&T, who are almost finished with their rollouts.  “Smaller markets with 100,000 – 300,000 population are going to be the hotbeds for 2014,” said Ron Deese, founder of telecom and wireless staffing agency TelForce Group as reported by RCR Wireless. As pressure from the mobile carriers trickles down to the construction companies, tower technicians will be in high demand in order to complete the installation of the 4G LTE equipment. “I have only seen one market as fluid as it is today and that was 1996-2001, during the dot.com/CLEC expansion,” said Deese. “I think 2014 is going to far exceed that…Crown Castle has very heavy hiring needs throughout 2014. They’re actually wrapping up their T-Mobile asset acquisition and now taking on the AT&T tower acquisition.” (Source: RCR Wireless)