About the Author - Firmly Anchored In Midair, the book

Author, John M. Rowe, a real estate broker licensed in Colorado for thirty years has been involved with locating, acquiring, and securing permits to build and operate antenna sites for telecommunications, as well as recruiting, hiring, training, and managing others to do the same throughout the US since 1980. He received a B.S. from Iowa State in Industrial Administration, an M.S. from the University of Colorado in telecommunications, and served as Regulatory Chairman for the Colorado Wireless Association from December 2016 to December 2018.

“Firmly Anchored in Midair: The Handbook of Wireless Site Acquisition and Permitting,” a culmination of John Rowe’s thirty-five years of expertise in the telecommunications industry, is the authoritative manual for training site acquisition, zoning agents, and local government relations specialists to secure real estate entitlements for wireless facilities development.

More detail about John’s career can be found in his profile on LinkedIn.

A few of John’s previous articles are accessible below:

On Front-end Pre-acquisition and Zoning for New Markets during RF System Design

On Processing Successful Zoning Applications

On Handing off projects from Site Acquisition to Construction

The Current State of Wireless Communications

In forty years since their birth, cell phones have transformed literally every aspect of our civilization from the physical assimilation of cell sites into our landscapes to the convergence of multiple services into our phone devices. Technology has revolutionized the cell phone into a smartphone, allowing us to send and receive electronic mail, take and transmit color photographs and live video, watch movies and live sports, manage time, browse the internet, engage in remote control, operate as a flashlight, compass, alarm clock, stopwatch, automated bank teller, calendar and, occasionally a telephone. Millions of applications have been developed to take advantage of the computing and communications power of smartphones throughout the world.

The Future of Wireless Communications

Our culture is experiencing an unprecedented explosion in the demand for wireless system capacity. 5G (5th generation) wireless is dramatically increasing the number of commercial mobile base stations in the U.S. and decreasing the size of neighborhood installations by removing the need for associated equipment near the antennas, resulting from the massive utilization of fiber optic transport systems to remotely connect with network facilities. As a result, rules, and regulations for siting wireless facilities have experienced universal transition. Firmly Anchored in Midair provides a comprehensive view of the present and future for wireless industry facility expansion and is an indispensable resource for many industry practitioners and novices alike.